Health humanities reader / edited by Therese Jones, Delese Wear, and Lester D. Friedman ; assistant editor Kathleen Pachucki.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jones, Therese, editor.

Wear, Delese, editor.

Friedman, Lester D., editor.

Pachucki, Kathleen, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Philosophy.

Medicine.

Medicine and the humanities.

Communication in medicine.

Medical education.

Philosophy, Medical.

Education, Medical.

Health Personnel--education.

Humanities.

Medical Subjects:

Philosophy, Medical.

Education, Medical.

Health Personnel--education.

Humanities.

Physical Description:

xiii, 603 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2014]

Summary:

Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire hearth professionals to engage in deeper reflection about the human elements of their practice. In the 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. With warmth and humor, critical acumen and ethical insight, the Health Humanities Reader truly humanizes the health professions. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Disease and Illness

Chapter 1 Being a Good Story: The Humanities as Therapeutic Practice / Arthur W. Frank Frank, Arthur W. 13

Chapter 2 Illuminating the It; Thee, and We of Disease and Illness: The Metamorphosis and Related Works / David H. Flood Flood, David H., Rhonda L. Soricelli Soricelli, Rhonda L. 26

Chapter 3 "This Weird, Incurable Disease": Competing Diagnoses in the Rhetoric of Morgellons / Lisa Keränen Keränen, Lisa 36

Chapter 4 My Quest for Health / Michael Sappol Sappol, Michael, Shelley Wall Wall, Shelley 50

Part II Disability

Chapter 5 Disability in Two Doctor Stories / Martha Stoddard Holmes Holmes, Martha Stoddard 63

Chapter 6 Music and Disability / Joseph N. Straus Straus, Joseph N. 77

Chapter 7 American Narrative Films and Disability: An Uneasy History / Martin F. Norden Norden, Martin F. 87

Chapter 8 Standout / Lisa I. Iezzoni Iezzoni, Lisa I. 97

Part III Death and Dying

Chapter 9 When the Doctor Is Not God: The Impact of Religion on Medical Decision Making at the End of Life / Felicia Cohn Cohn, Felicia 103

Chapter 10 Postmodern Death and Dying: A Literary Analysis / Martha Montello Montello, Martha, John Lantos Lantos, John 113

Chapter 11 Second Degree Block: Poem and Commentary / Amy Haddad Haddad, Amy 122

Part IV Patient-Professional Relationships

Chapter 12 Social Studies: The Humanities, Narrative, and the Social Context of the Patient-Professional Relationship / Rebecca Garden Garden, Rebecca 127

Chapter 13 Humanities and the Medical Home / Mark Clark Clark, Mark, Howard Brody Brody, Howard, Rebecca Hester Hester, Rebecca 138

Chapter 14 Occupational Medicine / Jack Coulehan Coulehan, Jack 149

Part V The Body

Chapter 15 The Virtues of the Imperfect Body / Rosemarie Tong Tong, Rosemarie 155

Chapter 16 Seeing Bodies in Pain / Sander L. Gilman Gilman, Sander L. 171

Chapter 17 Public Fetuses / Bernice L. Hausman Hausman, Bernice L. 186

Chapter 18 More Body: A Performance for Five (or More) Bodies / Gretchen A. Case Case, Gretchen A. 196

Part VI Gender and Sexuality

Chapter 19 Adult Intake Form

Chapter 20 What Is Sex For? or, The Many Uses of the Vag / Alice Dreger Dreger, Alice 207

Chapter 21 "I Always Prefer the Scissors": Isaac Baker Brown and Feminist Histories of Medicine / Marjorie Levine-Clark Levine-Clark, Marjorie 215

Chapter 22 Comics in the Health Humanities: A New Approach to Sex and Gender Education / Susan M. Squier Squier, Susan M. 226

Chapter 23 I Am Gula, Hear Me Roar: On Gender and Medicine / Rafael Campo Campo, Rafael 242

Part VII Race and Class

Chapter 24 Listening as Freedom: Narrative, Health, and Social Justice / Sayantani Dasgupta Dasgupta, Sayantani 251

Chapter 25 Race and Mental Health / Jonathan M. Metzl Metzl, Jonathan M. 261

Chapter 26 Law's Hand in Race, Class, and Health Inequities: On the Humanities and the Social Determinants of Health / Daniel Goldberg Goldberg, Daniel 268

Chapter 27 The Rooms of Our Souls / Maren Grainger-Monsen Grainger-Monsen, Maren 277

Part VIII Aging

Chapter 28 "Old Age Isn't a Battle, It's a Massacre": Reading Philip Roth's Everyman / Thomas R. Cole Cole, Thomas R., Benjamin Saxton Saxton, Benjamin 285

Chapter 29 "Do You Remember Me?" Constructions of Alzheimer's Disease in Literature and Film / E. Ann Kaplan Kaplan, E. Ann 295

Chapter 30 Love in the Time of Dementia / Jerald Winakur Winakur, Jerald 304

Part IX Mental Illness

Chapter 31 Narrating Our Sadness, with a Little Help from the Humanities / Brad Lewis Lewis, Brad 311

Chapter 32 Teaching Narratives of Mental Illness / Anne Hudson Jones Jones, Anne Hudson 321

Chapter 33 Community Psychiatry and the Medical Humanities / Michael Rowe Rowe, Michael 330

Chapter 34 Culpability / Ian Williams Williams, Ian 341

Part X Spirituality and Religion

Chapter 35 Rites of Bioethics / Tod Chambers Chambers, Tod 365

Chapter 36 Health and Humanities: Spirituality and Religion / Raymond C. Barfield Barfield, Raymond C., Lucy Selman Selman, Lucy 376

Chapter 37 Scientia Mortis and the Ars Moriendi: To the Memory of Norman / Jeffrey P. Bishop Bishop, Jeffrey P. 387

Chapter 38 Meditations of an Anesthesiologist: Poem and Commentary / Audrey Shafer Shafer, Audrey 403

Part XI Science and Technology

Chapter 39 Andromeda's Futures: A Story of Humanities, Technology, Science, and Art / Catherine Belling Belling, Catherine 409

Chapter 40 Knowing and Seeing: Reconstructing Frankenstein / Paul Root Wolpe Wolpe, Paul Root 419

Chapter 41 A Brief History of Love: A Rationale for the History of Epidemics / Allison B. Kavey Kavey, Allison B. 430

Chapter 42 Calcedonies / Jeff Nisker Nisker, Jeff 442

Part XII Health Professions Education

Chapter 43 Teaching Autism through Naturalized Narrative Ethics: Closing the Divide between Bioethics and Medical Humanities / Julie M. Aultman Aultman, Julie M. 479

Chapter 44 Courting Discomfort in an Undergraduate Health Humanities Classroom / Michael Blackie Blackie, Michael, Erin Gentry Lamb Lamb, Erin Gentry 490

Chapter 45 The Medical Humanities in Medical Education: Toward a Medical Aesthetics of Resistance / Alan Bleakley Bleakley, Alan 501

Chapter 46 In Defense of Cheaper Stethoscopes / Jay Baruch Baruch, Jay 511.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0813562465

9780813562476

0813562473

9780813562469

OCLC:

847112406

Publisher Number:

99959795519