Full Description
Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire medical practitioners to engage in deeper reflection about the human elements of their practice.
In Health Humanities Reader, editors Therese Jones, Delese Wear, and Lester D. Friedman have assembled fifty-four leading scholars, educators, artists, and clinicians to survey the rich body of work that has already emerged from the field—and to imagine fresh approaches to the health humanities in these original essays. The collection's contributors reflect the extraordinary diversity of the field, including scholars from the disciplines of disability studies, history, literature, nursing, religion, narrative medicine, philosophy, bioethics, medicine, and the social sciences.
With warmth and humor, critical acumen and ethical insight, Health Humanities Reader truly humanizes the field of medicine. Its accessible language and broad scope offers something for everyone from the experienced medical professional to a reader interested in health and illness.
Contents
PART I: DISEASE AND ILLNESSChapter 1 Being a Good Story: The Humanities as Therapeutic PracticeChapter 2 Illuminating the It, Thee, and We of Disease and Illness:The Metamorphosis and Related WorksChapter 3 "This Weird, Incurable Disease": Competing Diagnoses in the Rhetoric of MorgellonsChapter 4 My Quest for HealthPART II: DISABILITYChapter 5 Disability in Two Doctor StoriesChapter 6 Music and DisabilityChapter 7 American Narrative Films and Disability: An Uneasy HistoryChapter 8 StandoutPART III: DEATH AND DYINGChapter 9 When the Doctor Is Not God: The Impact of Religion on Medical Decision-Making at the End of LifeChapter 10 Postmodern Death and Dying: A Literary AnalysisChapter 11 Second-Degree Block: Poem and CommentaryPART IV PATIENT-PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIPS Chapter 12 Social Studies: The Humanities, Narrative, and the Social Context of the Patient-Professional RelationshipChapter 13 Humanities and the Medical HomeChapter 14 Occupational MedicinePART V: THE BODYChapter 15 The Virtues of the Imperfect BodyChapter 16 Seeing Bodies in PainChapter 17 Public FetusesChapter 18 More Body: A Performance for Five (or More) BodiesPART VI: GENDER AND SEXUALITY Chapter 19 Adult Intake FormChapter 20 What Is Sex For? or, The Many Uses of the VagChapter 21 "I Always Prefer the Scissors": Isaac Baker Brown and Feminist Histories of MedicineChapter 22 Comics in the Health Humanities: A New Approach to Sex and Gender EducationChapter 23 I Am Gula, Hear Me RoarPART VII: RACE AND CLASSChapter 24 Listening as Freedom: Narrative, Health, and Social JusticeChapter 25 Race and Mental HealthChapter 26 Law's Hand in Race, Class, and Health Inequities: On the Humanities and the Social Determinants of HealthChapter 27 Dark Rooms of Our SoulsPART VIII: AGINGChapter 28 "Old Age Isn't a Battle, It's a Massacre": Reading Philip Roth's EverymanChapter 29 "Do You Remember Me?": Construction of Alzheimer's Disease in Literature and FilmChapter 30 Love in the Time of Dementia
PART IX MENTAL ILLNESSChapter 31 Narrating Our Sadness, with a Little Help from HumanitiesChapter 32 Teaching Narratives of Mental IllnessChapter 33 Community Psychiatry and the Medical HumanitiesChapter 34 CulpabilityPART X SPIRITUALITY AND RELIGIONChapter 35 Rites of BioethicsChapter 36 Health and Humanities: Spirituality and ReligionChapter 37 Scientia Mortis and the ArsMoriendi: To the Memory of NormanChapter 38 Meditations of an Anesthesiologist: Poem and CommentaryPART XI: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYChapter 39 Andromeda's Futures: A Story of Humanities, Technology, Science, and ArtChapter 40 Knowing and Seeing: Reconstructing FrankensteinChapter 41 A Brief History of Love: A Rationale for the History of EpidemicsChapter 42 CalcedoniesPART XII HEALTH PROFESSIONS EDUCATIONChapter 43 Teaching Autism through Naturalized Narrative Ethics: Closing the Divide between Bioethics and Medical HumanitiesChapter 44 Courting Discomfort in an Undergraduate Health Humanities ClassroomChapter 45 The Medical Humanities in Medical Education: Toward a Medical Aesthetics of ResistanceChapter 46 In Defense of Cheaper Stethoscopes
