Teaching literature and medicine / edited by Anne Hunsaker Hawkins, Marilyn Chandler McEntyre.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hawkins, Anne Hunsaker, 1944-

McEntyre, Marilyn Chandler, 1949-

Series:

Options for teaching

Modern Language Association of America : Options for teaching

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and medicine.

Literature--Study and teaching.

Literature.

Medicine--Study and teaching.

Medicine.

Medicine in literature.

Physical Description:

viii, 406 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Modern Language Association, 2000.

Summary:

Courses in literature and medicine flourish in undergraduate, medical school, and continuing-education programs throughout the United States and Canada. This volume presents a variety of approaches to the subject. It is intended both for literary scholars and for physicians who teach literature and medicine or who are interested in interdisciplinary study.

The essays describe model courses; list readings widely taught in literature and medicine courses; discuss the value of texts in both medical education and the practice of medicine; and provide bibliographic resources, including works in the history of medicine from classical antiquity.

Contents:

Introduction: Teaching Literature and Medicine: A Retrospective and a Rationale / Anne Hunsaker Hawkins, Marilyn Chandler McEntyre 1

Part I Model Courses

Literary Concepts for Medical Readers: Frame, Time, Plot, Desire / Rita Charon 29

Illness in America / Stephanie P. Browner 42

Medical History and Literary Texts / Lilian R. Furst 55

The History and Literature of Women's Health / Suzanne Poirier 65

Teaching the Body in Texts: Literature, Culture, and Religion / Kendrick W. Prewitt 77

Exploring the Human Condition: Literature and Public Health Issues / Martin Donohoe 92

Ethics, Language, and Narrative / Iliana Alexandra Semmler 105

Madness and Suicide as Themes in Western Literature / Janice L. Willms 119

Mind and Body, Psyche and Soma: Metaphors from Greek Myth through Literature to the Clinic / Jan Marta 128

Literature and Medicine as a Writing Course / Lois S. Spatz, Kathleen Welch 141

Light to the Mind: Literature in the Medical Spanish Course / Elizabeth M. Willingham 151

The Tyranny of the Normal / Carol Donley, Sheryl Buckley 163

Rhetoric and the Politics of Medical Persuasion / Dieter J. Boxmann 175

Part II Texts, Authors, Genres

Touchstones: A Brief Survey of Some Standard Works / Marilyn Chandler McEntyre 187

Plague Medicine in Langland's Piers Plowman / Bryon Lee Grigsby 200

Teaching Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Medical Texts as Literature / Paul W. Child 208

"Doctor" Frankenstein and "Scientific" Medicine / H. Bruce Franklin 218

The Nineteenth Century's Obsession with Medicine: Flaubert's Madame Bovary / Michele M. Respaut 226

Kafka's Corpus: Writing Tuberculosis and Being Literature / Vera Pohland 233

The Tigers of Wrath: Mann's Death in Venice as Myth and Medicine / Laura Otis 243

"There Is Something Wrong about the Fellow": Willa Cather's "Paul's Case" / Michelle Bollard Toby 252

Birthing Death: Sharon Olds's The Father and the Poetics of the Body / Kristin Lindgren 260

The Hospital Poetry of U. A. Fanthorpe / Paul Delaney 267

Health and Healing in the Works of Three African American Women Writers / Deborah R. Grayson 277

Critical Conditions: Teaching Illness Narrative / G. Thomas Couser 282

"Dancing in Very Narrow Spaces": Pinter's A Kind of Alaska in Performance / Elizabeth Homan, Sidney Homan 289

Part III Literature in Medical Education and Medical Practice

Sherlock Holmes and Clinical Reasoning / Kathryn Montgomery 299

Nurses' Poetry: Expanding the Literature and Medicine Canon / Cortney Davis 306

Literature and the Irony of Medical Science / LaVera M. Crawley 316

"Poor Yorick": Reflections on Gross Anatomy / Douglas Robert Reifler 327

In Brief: A Literature Seminar in Clinical Medical Education / Joseph Cady 333

Signifying Medication in Thom Jones's "Superman, My Son" / Jonathan M. Metzl 338

(Un) Professional Relationships in the Gendered Maze of Medicine / Rhonda L. Soricelli, David H. Flood 344

"Read Two Chapters and Call Me in the Morning": Teaching Literature to Physicians / Anne Hunsaker Hawkins 353

Part IV Resources for Teachers and Scholars in Literature and Medicine

General Bibliographies 367

Journals 367

Anthologies of Primary Sources 367

Online Resources at New York University School of Medicine / Felice Aull 368

Centers and Societies 370

Selective Bibliography of Secondary Sources in Literature and Medicine 371

Selective Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources in the History of Medicine / Dieter J. Boxmann, Paul W. Child, Bryon Lee Grigsby, Monica Maillet 373.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [365]-383) and index.

ISBN:

0873523563

0873523571

OCLC:

42072247