This authoritative new handbook offers a comprehensive and cutting-edge overview of the state of the medical humanities globally, showing how clinically oriented medical humanities, the critical study of medicine as a global historical and cultural phenomenon, and medicine as a force for cultural change can inform each other.
Composed of eight parts, the Routledge Handbook of the Medical Humanities looks at the medical humanities as:
- a network and system
- therapeutic
- provocation
- forms of resistance
- a way of reconceptualising the medical curriculum
- concerned with performance and narrative
- mediated by artists as diagnosticians of culture through public engagement.
This book describes how the medical humanities can be used in and out of clinical settings, acting as a point of resistance, redistributing medicine’s capital amongst its stakeholders, embracing the complexity of medical instances, shaping medical education, promoting interdisciplinary understandings and recognising an identity for the medical humanities as a network effect. This book is an essential read for all students, scholars and practitioners with an interest in the medical humanities.
Introduction
The Medical Humanities: A Mixed Weather Front on a Global Scale
Alan Bleakley
Medical humanities as networks, systems and translations
1 A Dose of Empathy from my Syrian Doctor
Randi Davenport
2 The Cultural Crossings of Care: A Call for Translational Medical Humanities
Julia Kristeva, Marie Rose Moro, John Ødemark, Eivind Engebretsen
3 Medical Work in Transition: Toward Collaborative and Transformative Expertise
Yrjö Engeström
4 Health, Health Care and Health Education: Problems, Paradigms, and Patterns
Stewart Mennin, Glenda Eoyang, Mary Nations
Democratising medicine: the medical humanities as forms of resistance
5 The State of the Union: Rigour and Responsibility in US Health Humanities
Tess Jones, Delese Wear
6 The Cutting Edge: Health Humanities for Equity and Social Justice
Arno Kumagai, Thirusha Naidu
7 Geography as Engaged Medical-Health-Humanities
Courtney Donovan, Sarah de Leeuw
8 Challenging Heteronormativity in Medicine
William J Robertson
9 Medical Nemesis 40 Years On: The Enduring Legacy of Ivan Illich
Seamus O’Mahony
10 Hospitaland
Jefferson Wong
Medicine’s metaphors and rhetoric
11 Don’t Breathe a Word: A Psychoanalysis of Medicine’s Inflations
Alan Bleakley
12 Metaphor as Art – A Thought Experiment
Anita Wohlmann
13 The Practice of Metaphor
Shane Neilson
14 Medical Slang: Symptom or Solution?
Nicole M Piemonte
15 Ageism and Rhetoric
Judy Z Segal
16 The Rhetorical Possibilities of a Multi-metaphorical View of Clinical Supervision
Lorelei Lingard, Mark Goldszmidt
17 Narratives of Anti-Vaccination
Katherine Shwetz
18 Thought Curfew: Empathy’s Endgame?
David Cotterrell
Medicine as performance and public engagement
19 The Performing Arts in Medicine and Medical Education
Claire Hooker, James Dalton
20 A Manifesto for Artists’ Books & the Medical Humanities
Stella Bolaki
21 Grasping Emergency Care through Pop Culture: The Truths and Lies of Film, Television
and Other Video Based Media
Henry Curtis
22 Who is the Audience for Medical/ Health Humanities?
Suzy Willson, Pamela Brett-Maclean, Bella Eacott
23 Desire Imagination Action: Theatre of the Oppressed in Medical Education
Ravi Ramaswamy, Radha Ramaswamy
24 Zombie Sickness: Contagious Ideas in Performance
Martin O’Brien, Gianna Bouchard
25 The Masks of Uncertainty
Cara Martin
Embodiment and disembodiment
26 Nobody’s Home
Susan Bleakley
27 Ecstasy
Alphonso Lingis
28 Relationships that Matter: Embodying Absent Kinships in the Japanese Child Welfare
System
Kathryn E Goldfarb
29 Still Alice? Ethical Aspects of Conceptualising Selfhood in Dementia
Kristin Zeiler, Lisa Folkmarson Käll
30 Body Maps: Reframing Embodied Experiences through Ethnography and Art
Cari Costanzo
31 Perspectives on Olfaction in Medical Culture
Crispian Neill
The medical humanities in medical education
32 The ‘Awe-full’ Fascination of Pathology
Quentin Eichbaum, Gil Pena, Leonard White, Gwinyai Masukume
33 Balancing Bioethics by Sensing the Aesthetic
Paul Macneill
34 Medical Humanities Online: Experiences from South Africa
Steve Reid, Susan Levine
35 "Your effort was great/ You carried me nine months": The Birth of Medical Humanities
in Ethiopia
Part I: ‘Your effort was great’
Ian Fussell
Part II: Spices and Hard Questions
Robert Marshall
36 Medical Humanities in Canadian Medical Schools: Progress, Challenges and
Opportunities
Allan Peterkin, Natalie Beausoleil, Monica Kidd, Bahar Orang, Hesam Noroozi,
Pamela Brett-MacLean
The patient will see you now
37 Can We Make Empathy More Intelligent? Try Social Empathy!
Caroline Wellbery
38 A Letter from Marijke Boucherie to Alan Bleakley
Marijke Boucherie
39 Health Humanities: A Democratising Future Beyond Medical Humanities
Paul Crawford, Brian Brown
40 Doctors Need Safe Confessional and Cathartic Spaces. What We Learned From the
Research Project: ‘People Talking: Digital Dialogues for Mutual Recovery’
Jon Allard, Michael Wilson, Alan Bleakley
41 All Thanks to the Words of a Stranger (an homage to the UK’s National Health Service)
Sophie Holloway
Overview: celebrating the Persian Flaw
42 Negotiating Research in the Medical Humanities
Maria Athina (Tina) Martimianakis, Ayelet Kuper, Cynthia Whitehead
Biography
Alan Bleakley is Emeritus Professor of Medical Education and Medical Humanities at Plymouth University’s Peninsula School of Medicine, UK, and Visiting Scholar at the Wilson Centre, University of Toronto, Canada. He is immediate past president of the Association for Medical Humanities Council.
