Medicine, health and being human [electronic resource]

• 其他作者：
  • Scholl, Lesa, editor.
• 其他題名：
  • Routledge advances in the medical humanities.
• 出版： Abingdon, Oxon ;New York, NY : Routledge
• 叢書名： Routledge advances in the medical humanities
• 主題： Medicine--Philosophy. , Medicine in literature. , Medicine. , Philosophy, Medical. , Health. , Human Body. , Medicine in Literature. , Electronic books. , Electronic books.
• ISBN： 9780203732700 (electronic bk.) 、 0203732707 (electronic bk.)
• FIND@SFXID: CGU
• 資料類型: 電子書
• 內容註: Includes bibliographical references and index. Physicians and the soul : medicine and spirituality in seventeenth-century England / Michelle Pfeffer -- Hearing differently : medical, modern and medieval approaches to sound / Bonnie Millar -- Sensing the self in the wandering mind / Hazel Morrison -- Soul searching : psychiatry's influence on selfhood / Patrick Seniuk -- Evidence-based medicine, the placebo effect, and performativity in healing / Hannah Lesshafft -- Voices in medicine : ethics, human rights, and medical experimentation / Jennifer Greenwood -- The cost of efficiency in Great War nursing literature / M. Renee Benham -- Negotiating wonders : medical-triggered redefinitions of humanity in popular fiction / Anna Gasperini -- The ideal and the real : art, anatomy, and human distinctiveness / Corinna Wagner -- Medical imaging and the intrusive gaze / Catherine Jenkins -- 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 -- 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 -- In Lady Delacour's shadow : women patients and breast cancer in short fiction / April Patrick -- My lawful wife and mistress : a physician's perspective / Uzo Dibia -- 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.
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• 摘要註: Medicine, Health and Being Human begins a conversation to explore how the medical has defined us: that is, the ways in which perspectives of medicine and health have affected cultural understandings of what it means to be human. With chapters that span from the early modern period through to the contemporary world, and are drawn from a range of disciplines, this volume holds that incremental historical and cultural influences have brought about an understanding of humanity in which the medical is ingrained, consciously or unconsciously, usually as a mode of legitimisation. Divided into three parts, the book follows a narrative path from the integrity of the human soul, through to the integrity of the material human body, then finally brought together through engaging with end-of-life responses. Part 1 examines the move from spirituality to psychiatry in terms of the way medical science has influenced cultural understandings of the mind. Part 2 interrogates the role that medicine has played in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in constructing and deconstructing the self and other, including the fusion of visual objectivity and the scientific gaze in constructing perceptions of humanity. Part 3 looks at the limits of medicine when the integrity of one body breaks down. It contends with the ultimate question of the extent to which humanity is confined within the integrity of the human body, and how medicine and the humanities work together toward responding to the finality of death. This is a valuable contribution for all those interested in the medical humanities, history of medicine, history of ideas and the social approaches to health and illness.
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