Health Humanities Reader / / ed. by Therese Jones, Delese Wear, Lester D. Friedman.

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• TeilnehmendeR: Aultman, Julie M.; Barfield, Raymond C.; Baruch, Jay.; Belling, Catherine.; Bishop, Jeffrey P.; Blackie, Michael.; Bleakley, Alan.; Brody, Howard.; Campo, Rafael.; Case, Gretchen A.; Chambers, Tod.; Clark, Mark.; Cohn, Felicia.; Cole, Thomas R.; Coulehan, Jack.; DasGupta, Sayantani.; Dreger, Alice.; Flood, David H.; Frank, Arthur W.; Garden, Rebecca.; Gilman, Sander L.; Goldberg, Daniel.; Grainger-Monsen, Maren.; Haddad, Amy.; Hausman, Bernice.; Hester, Rebecca J.; Holmes, Martha Stoddard.; Iezzoni, Lisa I.; Jones, Anne Hudson.; Kaplan, E. Ann.; Kavey, Allison B.; Keränen, Lisa.; Lamb, Erin Gentry.; Lantos, John.; Levine-Clark, Marjorie.; Lewis, Bradley.; Metzl, Jonathan M.; Montello, Martha.; Nisker, Jeff.; Norden, Martin F.; Peterkin, Allen.; Rowe, Michael.; Sappol, Michael.; Saxton, Benjamin.; Selman, Lucy.; Shafer, Audrey.; Soricelli, Rhonda L.; Squier, Susan M.; Straus, Joseph N.; Tong, Rosemarie.; Vonnegut, Mark.; Wall, Shelley.; Williams, Ian.; Winakur, Jerald.; Wolpe, Paul Root.
• MitwirkendeR: Aultman, Julie M.,; Barfield, Raymond C.,; Baruch, Jay,; Belling, Catherine,; Bishop, Jeffrey P.,; Blackie, Michael,; Bleakley, Alan,; Brody, Howard,; Campo, Rafael,; Case, Gretchen A.,; Chambers, Tod,; Clark, Mark,; Cohn, Felicia,; Cole, Thomas R.,; Coulehan, Jack,; DasGupta, Sayantani,; Dreger, Alice,; Flood, David H.,; Frank, Arthur W.,; Friedman, Lester D.,; Garden, Rebecca,; Gilman, Sander L.,; Goldberg, Daniel,; Grainger-Monsen, Maren,; Haddad, Amy,; Hausman, Bernice L.,; Hester, Rebecca,; Holmes, Martha Stoddard,; Iezzoni, Lisa I.,; Jones, Anne Hudson,; Jones, Therese,; Kaplan, E. Ann,; Kavey, Allison B.,; Keränen, Lisa,; Lamb, Erin Gentry,; Lantos, John,; Levine-Clark, Marjorie,; Lewis, Brad,; Metzl, Jonathan M.,; Montello, Martha,; Nisker, Jeff,; Norden, Martin F.,; Peterkin, Allan,; Rowe, Michael,; Sappol, Michael,; Saxton, Benjamin,; Selman, Lucy,; Shafer, Audrey,; Soricelli, Rhonda L.,; Squier, Susan M.,; Straus, Joseph N.,; Tong, Rosemarie,; Vonnegut, Mark,; Wall, Shelley,; Wear, Delese,; Williams, Ian,; Winakur, Jerald,; Wolpe, Paul Root,
• HerausgeberIn: Friedman, Lester D.,; Jones, Therese,; Wear, Delese,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (448 p.) :; 12 photographs, 2 graphic chap

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword: Too Long Too Short -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Why, The What, And The How Of The Medical/Health Humanities -- Part I. Disease And Illness -- Chapter 1. Being A Good Story: The Humanities As Therapeutic Practice -- Chapter 2. Illuminating The It, Thee, And We Of Disease And Illness: The Metamorphosis And Related Works -- Chapter 3. “This Weird, Incurable Disease”: Competing Diagnoses In The Rhetoric Of Morgellons -- Chapter 4. My Quest For Health -- Part II. Disability -- Chapter 5. Disability In Two Doctor Stories -- Chapter 6. Music And Disability -- Chapter 7. American Narrative Films And Disability: An Uneasy History -- Chapter 8. Standout -- Part III. Death And Dying -- Chapter 9. When The Doctor Is Not God: The Impact Of Religion On Medical Decision Making At The End Of Life -- Chapter 10. Postmodern Death And Dying: A Literary Analysis -- Chapter 11. Second Degree Block: Poem And Commentary -- Part IV. Patient- Professional Relationships -- Chapter 12. Social Studies: The Humanities, Narrative, And The Social Context Of The Patient-Professional Relationship -- Chapter 13. Humanities And The Medical Home -- Chapter 14. Occupational Medicine -- Part V. The Body -- Chapter 15. The Virtues Of The Imperfect Body -- Chapter 16. Seeing Bodies In Pain -- Chapter 17. Public Fetuses -- Chapter 18. More Body: A Performance For Five (Or More) Bodies -- Part VI. Gender And Sexuality -- Chapter 19. Adult Intake Form -- Chapter 20. What Is Sex For? Or, The Many Uses Of The Vag -- Chapter 21. “I Always Prefer The Scissors”: Isaac Baker Brown And Feminist Histories Of Medicine -- Chapter 22. Comics In The Health Humanities: A New Approach To Sex And Gender Education -- Chapter 23. I Am Gula, Hear Me Roar: On Gender And Medicine -- Part VII. Race And Class -- Chapter 24. Listening As Freedom: Narrative, Health, And Social Justice -- Chapter 25. Race And Mental Health -- Chapter 26. Law’S Hand In Race, Class, And Health Inequities: On The Humanities And The Social Determinants Of Health -- Chapter 27. The Rooms Of Our Souls -- Part VIII. Aging -- Chapter 28. “Old Age Isn’T A Battle, It’S A Massacre”: Reading Philip Roth’S Everyman -- Chapter 29. “Do You Remember Me?” Constructions Of Alzheimer’S Disease In Literature And Film -- Chapter 30. Love In The Time Of Dementia -- Part IX. Mental Illness -- Chapter 31. Narrating Our Sadness, With A Little Help From The Humanities -- Chapter 32. Teaching Narratives Of Mental Illness -- Chapter 33. Community Psychiatry And The Medical Humanities -- Chapter 34. Culpability -- Part X. Spirituality And Religion -- Chapter 35. Rites Of Bioethics -- Chapter 36. Health And Humanities: Spirituality And Religion -- Chapter 37. Scientia Mortis And The Ars Moriendi: To The Memory Of Norman -- Chapter 38. Meditations Of An Anesthesiologist: Poem And Commentary -- Part XI. Science And Technology -- Chapter 39. Andromeda’S Futures: A Story Of Humanities, Technology, Science, And Art -- Chapter 40. Knowing And Seeing: Reconstructing Frankenstein -- Chapter 41. A Brief History Of Love: A Rationale For The History Of Epidemics -- Chapter 42. Calcedonies -- Part XII. Health Professions Education -- Chapter 43. Teaching Autism Through Naturalized Narrative Ethics: Closing The Divide Between Bioethics And Medical Humanities -- Chapter 44. Courting Discomfort In An Undergraduate Health Humanities Classroom -- Chapter 45. The Medical Humanities In Medical Education: Toward A Medical Aesthetics Of Resistance -- Chapter 46. In Defense Of Cheaper Stethoscopes -- References -- Notes On Contributors -- Index