
Health Humanities Reader
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In Health Humanities Reader, editors Therese Jones, Delese Wear, and Lester D. Friedman have assembled fifty-four leading scholars, educators, artists, and clinicians to survey the rich body of work that has already emerged from the field-and to imagine fresh approaches to the health humanities in these original essays. The collection's contributors reflect the extraordinary diversity of the field, including scholars from the disciplines of disability studies, history, literature, nursing, religion, narrative medicine, philosophy, bioethics, medicine, and the social sciences.
With warmth and humor, critical acumen and ethical insight, Health Humanities Reader truly humanizes the field of medicine. Its accessible language and broad scope offers something for everyone from the experienced medical professional to a reader interested in health and illness.
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"This bold, intelligent, and vitally comprehensive collection is a truly interdisciplinary achievement and an indispensible resource.Through twelve judiciously selected thematic clusters, Rutgers's Health Humanities Reader consolidates this new subfield by capturing both the complexity and excitement of health humanities scholarship. An essential tool with practical applications both inside and outside the classroom."- Andrea Charise, PhD, assistant professor of health studies, University of Toronto, Scarborough"It's about time! The field of medical humanities has been waiting for a reader, and this one is it. With an excellent array of essays in appropriate topics by top people in the field, this book should set the standard for the next ten years. It will prove fascinating to undergraduates, graduate students in both the humanities and the health sciences, and to the general public and particularly those who are or will be patients-which of course is everyone."
- Lennard J. Davis, editor of The Disability Studies Reader
"[This book] consists of nearly 50 chapters, some of which deal with classic medical humanities topics, such as the notions of health and disease and the theory of the body. The majority of the book centers on more contemporary-some would say postmodern-issues, such as gender and sexuality, disability, and aging. Recommended."- Choice
"This is a landmark volume that sets the standard for any future collection in medical/health humanities. It is by turns authoritative, funny, edgy, creative and personal-sometimes all in one piece."
- Thomas R. Cole, Director, McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics, University of Texas-Houston Medical School
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DELESE WEAR is a professor of behavioral and community health sciences at Northeast Ohio Medical University. She has written and edited numerous books, including Educating for Professionalism: Creating a Culture of Humanism in Medical Education.
LESTER D. FRIEDMAN is chair of media and society at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. A leading scholar on media representations of medicine, he is the editor of Cultural Sutures: Medicine and Media and co-editor of Picture of Health: Medical Ethics and the Movies.
Content
PART IX MENTAL ILLNESSChapter 31 Narrating Our Sadness, with a Little Help from HumanitiesChapter 32 Teaching Narratives of Mental IllnessChapter 33 Community Psychiatry and the Medical HumanitiesChapter 34 CulpabilityPART X SPIRITUALITY AND RELIGIONChapter 35 Rites of BioethicsChapter 36 Health and Humanities: Spirituality and ReligionChapter 37 Scientia Mortis and the ArsMoriendi: To the Memory of NormanChapter 38 Meditations of an Anesthesiologist: Poem and CommentaryPART XI: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYChapter 39 Andromeda's Futures: A Story of Humanities, Technology, Science, and ArtChapter 40 Knowing and Seeing: Reconstructing FrankensteinChapter 41 A Brief History of Love: A Rationale for the History of EpidemicsChapter 42 CalcedoniesPART XII HEALTH PROFESSIONS EDUCATIONChapter 43 Teaching Autism through Naturalized Narrative Ethics: Closing the Divide between Bioethics and Medical HumanitiesChapter 44 Courting Discomfort in an Undergraduate Health Humanities ClassroomChapter 45 The Medical Humanities in Medical Education: Toward a Medical Aesthetics of ResistanceChapter 46 In Defense of Cheaper Stethoscopes
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