Routledge Handbook of the Medical Humanities.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of contributors -- Introduction: the medical humanities-a mixed weather front on a global scale -- The humanities are implicit in medicine, where democracy must be built -- Bone-tired, on skeletal resourcing, but muscling through-can the medical humanities help? -- Networks, border crossings, translations -- Surfing the waves of the medical humanities -- New horizons for the medical humanities -- Summary of the work of the medical humanities -- References -- PART I: Medical humanities as networks, systems and translations -- Chapter 1: A dose of empathy from my Syrian doctor -- Chapter 2: The cultural crossings of care: a call for translational medical humanities -- Introduction -- Cura and the chronotopy of care -- Boundary work across the nature-culture divide -- The healing powers of translation: the case of Souad -- Towards a translational medical humanities -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Chapter 3: Medical work in transition: towards collaborative and transformative expertise -- Introduction -- Expertise as object-oriented activity systems -- Expertise as knotworking -- Expertise as expansive learning -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Health, health care, and health education: problems, paradigms, and patterns -- Introduction -- The nature of patterns -- Traditional problems: the whole equals the sum of its parts -- Paradigms: shift happens -- Complex patterns: the whole is greater than, and different from, the sum of its parts -- Self-organisation in human systems -- The CDE Model -- Pattern Logic -- Adaptive Action -- What has been closed is disclosed -- Acknowledgements -- Note -- References -- PART II: Democratising medicine: the medical humanities as forms of resistance.

Chapter 5: The state of the union: rigour and responsibility in US health humanities -- Expertise: who teaches? -- Content and methodology: what is taught and how? -- Evaluation: what are the goals, and how are they met? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6: The cutting edge: health humanities for equity and social justice -- Introduction -- Critical consciousness: the object of learning in critical humanities -- The power of stories -- Questioning postcolonialism and neocolonialism in decolonising medical education -- There is no social justice and equity without reflexivity: how does who I am influence what I see and how others see me? -- Putting the health humanities under a critical gaze -- Towards a dialogical approach to teaching for social justice -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 7: Geography as engaged medical-health-humanities -- Introduction -- Medical-health-humanities as approaches to capturing overlooked experiences -- Place and micro-aggressions in geographies of health -- Unpacking the relationship of inequality and geography in 'Milk' -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: Challenging heteronormativity in medicine -- Introduction -- Defining heteronormativity -- Ab/normality and the production of heteronormativity in medicine -- The problem of heteronormativity in medicine -- Challenging heteronormativity in medicine -- References -- Chapter 9: Medical Nemesis 40 years on: the enduring legacy of Ivan Illich -- Introduction -- Themes of Medical Nemesis -- Prose style -- Medical Nemesis and Illich's 'apophasis' -- Contemporary reaction to Medical Nemesis -- Have Illich's prophecies come true? -- Influence of Illich -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Chapter 10: Hospitaland -- Tour of Hospitaland -- Themes in Hospitaland -- References -- PART III: Medicine's metaphors and rhetoric.

Chapter 11: Don't breathe a word: a psychoanalysis of medicine's inflations -- My father's death -- Medicine's inflation -- Putting medicine on the couch -- The aerial imagination -- Combat breathing and the survival of the sickest -- References -- Chapter 12: Metaphor as art: a thought experiment -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 13: The practice of metaphor -- The doctors I admire -- The why of metaphoric intervention -- The how of metaphoric intervention -- Notes -- References -- Appendix -- Excerpt from actual chart note -- Chapter 14: Medical slang: symptom or solution? -- Introduction -- A blueberry muffin baby -- Why culinary metaphors? -- Language, epistemology, and practice -- Conflicting messages -- Medical education as socialisation -- Saying what we really mean -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 15: Ageism and rhetoric -- Preface -- Ageism: an introduction -- My subject position -- Methodology and theory -- Rhetorical observations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 16: The rhetorical possibilities of a multi-metaphorical view of clinical supervision -- Conceptual framework: what's in a metaphor? -- Conventional metaphors: how do we currently know clinical supervision? -- Emerging metaphors: how can we otherwise understand clinical supervision? -- Conclusion: what are the rhetorical possibilities of a multi-metaphorical view? -- References -- Chapter 17: The chaotic narratives of anti-vaccination -- Narratives of anti-vaccination -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 18: Thought curfew: empathy's endgame? -- The conceit -- The context -- The consent -- The curfew -- Note -- References -- Acknowledgements -- PART IV: Medicine as performance and public engagement -- Chapter 19: The performing arts in medicine and medical education -- Introduction -- Scene I: &lt -- set in the past&gt.

Scene II: an air of verisimilitude-'front stage' and 'back stage' as a theory of social action in medicine -- Scene III: mimesis-simulation and sensibility -- Scene IV: so much more real than life-authenticity and expertise -- Entr'acte: &lt -- smoke machine&gt -- seeking 'empathy' -- Scene V: that within which passes show-improvising the future -- Scene VI: finale -- References -- Chapter 20: A manifesto for artists' books and the medical humanities -- What is (not) an artist's book? -- The aesthetic and political characteristics of artists' books -- The book as matter and metaphor -- Artists' books and the medical humanities -- To make a book is . . . -- Patient doctor relations -- The radical pedagogy of artists' books -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 21: Grasping emergency care through pop culture: the truths and lies of film, television and other video-based media -- Pop culture consumers -- Doctor-patient relationship -- Replacing the bedside assessment with technology -- Bias and diversity -- Journey of a doctor over a lifetime -- Future thinking in emergency pop culture -- Controlling the narrative -- References -- Chapter 22: Who is the audience for the medical/health humanities? -- How do we think about audiences? -- Who are our audiences and how can we engage with them? -- Why do we want to engage with these audiences? -- References -- Recommended reading -- Chapter 23: Desire imagination action: Theatre of the Oppressed in medical education -- The problem -- Theatre of the Oppressed and medical humanities -- What happens in TO workshops -- Challenges and reason for hope -- Note -- Reference -- Further reading -- Chapter 24: Zombie sickness: contagious ideas in performance -- References -- Chapter 25: The masks of uncertainty -- PART V: Embodiment and disembodiment -- Chapter 26: Nobody's home -- Chapter 27: Ecstasy.

To know what happens, what is -- The chosen vulnerability -- Anxiety and resolve -- High-risk leisure -- Ecstasy -- References -- Chapter 28: Relationships that matter: embodying absent kinships in the Japanese child welfare system -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 29: Still Alice? Ethical aspects of conceptualising selfhood in dementia -- Recognition -- Responsibility -- Rethinking the two tendencies via Still Alice -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Chapter 30: Body Maps: reframing embodied experiences through ethnography and art -- Introduction -- We are all embodied beings -- Embodiment and ethnography -- Reading the body -- History of Body Mapping -- Ethnographic Body Maps -- Note -- References -- Chapter 31: Perspectives on olfaction in medical culture -- References -- PART VI: The medical humanities in medical education -- Chapter 32: The 'awe-full' fascination of pathology -- Medical pathology as a human science -- Awe-full metaphors in pathology -- The meta/neurocognitive perspective -- Engendering awe-full fascination in medical education -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 33: Biomedical ethics and the medical humanities: sensing the aesthetic -- Introduction -- Biomedical ethics and medical humanities understood conventionally -- The medical humanities -- Commonalities between biomedical ethics and medical humanities understood conventionally -- Biomedical ethics and medical humanities understood as aesthetic practices -- Biomedical ethics as an aesthetic -- The medical humanities as an aesthetic -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 34: Medical humanities online: experiences from South Africa -- Introduction -- The motivation for 'going online' -- Transforming a face-to-face course into an online format -- The experience of online learning -- The interaction of online and face-to-face courses.

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This Handbook offers a 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 intersect and inform each other.

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