PART I: Situating the soul, self and mind
1. Physicians and the soul: medicine and spirituality in
seventeenth-century England MICHELLE PFEFFER
2. Hearing differently: medical, modern and medieval
approaches to sound BONNIE MILLAR
3. Sensing the self in the wandering mind HAZEL MORRISON
4. Soul searching: psychiatry's influence on seltbood PATRICK
SENIUK
5. Faith in healing: evidence-based medicine, the placebo effect
and Afro-Brazilian healing rituals HANNAH LESSHAFFT
PART II: Socio-medical narratives
6. Voices in medicine: ethics, human rights and medical
experimentation JENNIFER GREENWOOD
7. The cost of efficiency in Great War nursing literature
M. RENEE BENHAM
8. Negotiating wonders: medical-triggered redefinitions of
humanity in popular fiction ANNA GASPERINI
9. The human ideal and the real: artistic vision and anatomical
sight CORINNA WAGNER
10. Medical imaging and the intrusive gaze CATHERINE
JENKINS
PART III: Limits of medical intervention
11. The fairytale narratives of plastic surgery makeover TV
shows in South Korea: surgical metamorphosis, the "surgical
gaze," and the permeability of medical knowledge CARMEN
VOINEA
12. "John-o is interested in cutting up whatever he finds at
the limits of life": monstrous anatomies and the production of
the human body in Alasdair Gray's Poor Things and Hilary
Mantel's The Giant, O'Brien KATHRYN BIRD
13. In Lady Delacour's shadow: women patients and breast
cancer in short fiction APRIL PATRICK
14. "My lawful wife and mistress": a physician's perspective
UZO DIBIA
15. A humanistic perspective on the healing power of language
at the end of life: restoration of the self through words and
silence ANDREA RODRIGUEZ-PRAT AND XAVIER ESCRIBANO
Biography
Lesa Scholl teaches in the School of Communication and Arts, University of Queensland, Australia.
