1st Edition
Reading the Psychosomatic in Medical and Popular Culture Something. Nothing. Everything
Introduction. The Psychosomatic as Nothing, Something, and Everything
1. Psychosomatic Patients and Providers: at the Mercy of a Medical System
[Caryn Kseniya Rubanovich]
2. Narrative Medicine and Fibromyalgia
[Maria Giulia Marini, Daniele De Nardo, Paola Chesi, Luigi Reale]
3. Medically Unexplained Symptoms and the Ethics of Diagnosis:
[Louise Stone, Claire Hooker]
4. Feeding Your Feelings: Emotional Eating in Mid-Twentieth Century America
[Jessica Parr]
5. Impossible Illnesses: Decolonizing Psychosomatic Medicine
[Amba J. Sepie]
6. Narrative Coherence and Medical Explanations of Psychosomatic Pain
[Seamus L. Barker and G. Lorimer Moseley]
7. Medicalstudentitis as a Rite of Passage in Popular Literature
[Maria Tutorskaya]
8. Women with Long-Term Exhaustion in Fictional Literature
[Olaug S. Lian, Catherine Robson, and Hilde Bondevik]
9. The Brute Within:
[Camelia Raghinaru]
10. Poor Things
[Hannah Tweed]
Biography
Carol-Ann Farkas is Associate Professor of English in the School of Arts and Sciences at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (MCPHS), Boston, USA.
