Charting shared advances across the emerging fields of medical humanities and health humanities, this book engages with the question of how biomedical knowledge is constructed, negotiated, and circulated as a cultural practice.
The volume is composed of a series of pathbreaking inter-disciplinary essays that bring sociocultural habits of mind and modes of thought to the study of medicine, health and patients.
These juxtapositions create new forms of knowledge, while emphasizing the vulnerability of human bodies, anti-essentialist approaches to biology, a sensitivity to language and rhetoric, and an attention to social justice. These essays dissect the ways that cultural practices define the limits of health and the body: from the body’s place and trajectory in the world to how bodies relate to one another, from questions about ageing and sex to what counts as health and illness.
Considering how these and other concepts are shaped by a negotiation between medico-scientific knowledge and ways of knowing derived from other domains, this book provides important new insights into how biomedical frameworks become settled forms for broader cultural understanding.
Edited by:
Rishi Goyal (Columbia University USA),
Arden Hegele (Columbia University,
USA)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781350248656
ISBN 10: 1350248657
Pages: 268
Publication Date: 25 July 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction – Rishi Goyal and Arden Hegele I. Identities/Institutions Chapter 1 - The Victorian Ethics of Reading Pregnancy in Contemporary Bestselling Fiction Livia Arndal Woods Chapter 2 - Postpartum Exhaustion in William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale Alicia Andrzejewski Chapter 3 - Medical and Military Transition in Anatomy of a Soldier Kristina Fleuty II. Practices Chapter 4 - On the Record: What Physician Texts Reveal about Physician Identities and the Electronic Health Record Kamna S. Balhara Chapter 5 - Mixed Feedback: The Promise of Structural Competence Education Joshua Franklin Chapter 6 - From Efficiency to Pain: A History of the Visual Analogue Scale Gabi Schaffzin III. Contingencies Chapter 7 - Toward a Crip Medical Humanities Travis Chi Wing Lau Chapter 8 - Tales of the City as Historical Document: HIV/AIDS, Serialization, Urban Landscapes and Sexuality John A. Carranza Chapter 9 - The Suffering Caregiver: Pain at the End of Life Benjamin Gagnon Chainey IV. Alternatives Chapter 10 - Against ‘Endochronology’: Hormonal Rebellion and Generic Blending in Confessions of the Fox Diana Rose Newby Chapter 11 - Whose Dystopia? Anna Fenton-Hathaway Coda Roanne Kantor
Rishi Goyal is Director of the Medicine, Literature and Society major in the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University, USA. Arden Hegele is Lecturer in Discipline in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, USA. She specializes in nineteenth-century British literature and the medical and health humanities. Her books are Romantic Autopsy: Literary Form and Medical Reading (Oxford, 2022) and the anthology Culture and Medicine: Critical Readings in the Health and Medical Humanities (co-edited with Dr. Rishi Goyal) . Hegele’s research in Romanticism has been published in core journals, such as European Romantic Review, Romanticism, The Byron Journal, and Keats-Shelley Journal, and she has also published in Partial Answers, Gender and Education, and Persuasions. Her book reviews are featured in Public Books, Review 19, Studies in Romanticism, Victorian Network, Partial Answers and Avidly. She is a reviewer at British Medical Journal, Prose Studies, and elsewhere. At Columbia, Hegele has taught in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, in the Medical Humanities major, in the Core Curriculum, and in the Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics at Columbia Medical Center. She is co-founding editor (with Dr. Rishi Goyal) of Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal. She directs the Explorations in the Medical Humanities Series at the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities.
Reviews for Culture and Medicine: Critical Readings in the Health and Medical Humanities
An enlightening and concerned set of contributions by the next generation of scholars to grapple with the Health and Medical Humanities and their interrelationships with the practices, research tools and teaching of health sciences. New understandings, formulations and methods emerge, which illuminate biomedicine as a constellation of healthcare beliefs, practices and cultural practices. Dynamic, scholarly and clearly written. * Brian Hurwitz, D’Oyly Carte Professor of Medicine and the Arts, Department of English, Kings College London, UK *
