ABSTRACT
This authoritative new handbook offers a comprehensive and cutting-edge overview of the state of the medical humanities globally, showing how clinically oriented medical humanities, the critical study of medicine as a global historical and cultural phenomenon, and medicine as a force for cultural change can inform each other.
Composed of eight parts, the Routledge Handbook of the Medical Humanities looks at the medical humanities as:
- a network and system
- therapeutic
- provocation
- forms of resistance
- a way of reconceptualising the medical curriculum
- concerned with performance and narrative
- mediated by artists as diagnosticians of culture through public engagement.
This book describes how the medical humanities can be used in and out of clinical settings, acting as a point of resistance, redistributing medicine’s capital amongst its stakeholders, embracing the complexity of medical instances, shaping medical education, promoting interdisciplinary understandings and recognising an identity for the medical humanities as a network effect. This book is an essential read for all students, scholars and practitioners with an interest in the medical humanities.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|43 pages
Medical humanities as networks, systems and translations
part II|54 pages
Democratising medicine
part III|75 pages
Medicine’s metaphors and rhetoric
part IV|64 pages
Medicine as performance and public engagement
chapter 21|8 pages
Grasping emergency care through pop culture
part V|51 pages
Embodiment and disembodiment
chapter 28|8 pages
Relationships that matter
part VI|61 pages
The medical humanities in medical education
chapter 35|10 pages
‘Your effort was great/you carried me nine months’
chapter 36|16 pages
Medical humanities in Canadian medical schools
part VII|42 pages
The patient will see you now
chapter 40|9 pages
Doctors need safe confessional and cathartic spaces
chapter 41|4 pages
All thanks to the words of a stranger
part VIII|13 pages
Overview