The Edinburgh companion to the critical medical humanities /

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Group Author: Whitehead, Anne, 1971- (Editor); Woods, Angela (Editor); Atkinson, Sarah J. (Editor); Macnaughton, Jane. (Editor); Richards, Jennifer. (Editor)
Published: Edinburgh University Press,
Publisher Address: Edinburgh :
Publication Dates: [2016]
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
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Carrier Form: xi, 660 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Issued also online.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781474400046
1474400043
Index Number: R702
CLC: R-052
Call Number: R-052/E235
Contents: Introduction, p.1 --
EVIDENCE AND EXPERIMENT --
Entangling the Medical Humanities, p.35 /
Modelling Systems Biomedicine : Intertwinement and the 'Real', p.50 /
Holism, Chinese Medicine and Systems Ideologies: Rewriting the Past to Imagine the Future, p.66 /
The Lived Genome, p.87 /
Getting the Measure of Twins, p.104 /
Paper Technologies, Digital Technologies : Working with Early Modern Medical Records, p.120 /
How Are / Our Work : 'What, if Anything, is the Use of Any of This?', p.136 /
Afterword : Evidence and Experiment, p.153 /
THE BODY AND THE SENSES --
Picturing Pain, p.163 /
The Body Beyond the Anatomy Lab : (Re)addressing Arts Methodologies for the Critical Medical Humanities, p.186 /
Touch, Trust and Compliance in Early Modern Medical Practice, p.209 /
Reframing Fatness : Critiquing 'Obesity', p.225 /
Reading the Image of Race : Neurocriminology, Medical Imaging Technologies and Literary Intervention, p.242 /
Touching Blind Bodies : A Critical Inquiry into Pedagogical and Cultural Constructions of Visual Disability in the Nineteenth Century, p.260 /
The Anatomy of the Renaissance Voice, p.276 /
Breathing and Breathlessness in Clinic and Culture: Using Critical Medical Humanities to Bridge an Epistemic Gap, p.294 /
Morphological Freedom and Medicine : Constructing the Posthuman Body, p.310 /
Afterword : The Body and the Senses, p.325 /
MIND, IMAGINATION, AFFECT --
Medical Humanities and the Place of Wonder, p.339 /
Man's Dark Interior : Surrealism, Viscera and the Anatomical Imaginary, p.356 /
Narrative and Clinical Neuroscience : Can Phenomenologically Informed Approaches and Empirical Work Cross-Fertilise?, p.377 /
On Pain of Death : The 'Grotesque Sovereignty' of the US Death Penalty, p.395 /
Voices and Visions : Mind, Body and Affect in Medieval Writing, p.411 /
Victorian Literary Aesthetics and Mental Pathology, p.428 /
Aphasic Modernism : Languages for Illness from a Confusion of Tongues, p.444 /
Trans-Species Entanglements : Animal Assistants in Narratives about Autism, p.463 /
Afterword : Mind, Imagination, Affect, p.481 /
HEALTH, CARE, CITIZENS, p.28 --
Medical Migration and the Global Politics of Equality, p.491 /
Language Matters : 'Counsel' in Early Modern and Modern Medicine, p.508 /
Fictions of the Human Right to Health : Writing against the Postcolonial Exotic in Western Medicine, p.527 /
Culture in Medicine : An Argument against Competence, p.541 /
The Roots and Ramifications of Narrative in Modern Medicine, p.559 /
Broadmoor Performed : A Theatrical Hospital, p.577 /
On (Not) Caring : Tracing the Meanings of Care in the Imaginative Literature of the 'Alzheimer's Epidemic', p.596 /
Care, Kidneys and Clones : The Distance of Space, Time and Imagination, p.611 /
Afterword : Health, Care, Citizens, p.627 /