Rethinking Medical Humanities : : Perspectives from the Arts and the Social Sciences /

Rethinking Medical Humanities : : Perspectives from the Arts and the Social Sciences / / ed. by Rinaldo F. Canalis, Massimo Ciavolella, Valeria Finucci.

Medical Humanities may be broadly conceptualized as a discipline wherein medicine and its specialties intersect with those of the humanities and social sciences. As such it is a hybrid area of study where the impact of disease and healing science on culture is assessed and expressed in the particula...

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MitwirkendeR:
Ballestriero, Roberta,
Beecher, Donald,
Bodei, Remo,
Bondio, Mariacarla Gadebusch,
Canalis, Rinaldo F.,
Ciavolella, Massimo,
Finucci, Valeria,
Gallerani, Manuela,
Kosmin, Jennifer,
Lazareff, Jorge A.,
Maurette, Pablo,
Meredith, Stephen C.,
Minden, Ariella,
Park, Sowon S.,
Rubinstein, Eduardo H.,
Savoia, Paolo,
Sutherland, Romy,
Touwaide, Alain,
Wells, Francis C.,
HerausgeberIn:
Canalis, Rinaldo F.,
Ciavolella, Massimo,
Finucci, Valeria,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]
©2023
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Medical Traditions : The Written Memory of World Medicine , 7
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XVIII, 417 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Contributors
  • Introduction: Setting up the Terms
  • Rethinking Medical Humanities
  • Philosophy and Ethical Queries
  • Pondering the Perimeters: Towards a Definition of Medical Humanism
  • Avoidable Mistakes – Premodern Medical Fallibility as an Ethical Problem with Epistemological Implications
  • When the Fetus Becomes a Child: Some Reflections from the Long Eighteenth Century
  • Ethical Responsibilities in the Curing/Caring Relationship
  • Haling or Hale: The Body in the Arts and Literature
  • Disease and the Problem of Evil in the Novels of Thomas Mann
  • Monstrosity and the Monstrous Revisited: Fortunio Liceti’s Medical Imagination
  • The Flesh of Wax: The Use of Scientific Collection in Medical Humanities
  • The Body between Life and Death: Berengario da Carpi and the Anatomical Image of the Sixteenth Century
  • The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Jan Deijman and the Social History of the Brain
  • Secrets of the Dead
  • The Bio-Turn in History Writing: Death, Last Wishes, and Lasting Wishes
  • The Fatal Disease of the Last Reigning Inca: A Historical and Clinical Study
  • Paleopathology and Anthropology of the Renaissance: From the Morbus Dominorum to the Alleged ‘Michelangelo’s Shoes’
  • Reason, Affects and Madness
  • The New World Opened by Madness
  • Why Listen to the Mad? What Schizophrenic Girl Offers to Narrative Medicine
  • The Malady of Love in Early Modern Medical Thought
  • The Humanities in Medical Education
  • Art Images And Medical Teaching
  • Medical Humanities: A Tautology or a Necessity?
  • Teaching PTSD with Film: The Case of Peter Weir’s Fearless
  • The Humanities and Global Health: Travels with Philippa Foot and Karl Popper
  • Postface
  • Medical Humanities as a Search for Unity
  • Cumulative Bibliography
  • Index of Names

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