Critical dialogues in the medical humanities / edited by Emma Domínguez-RueÌ&#x0081.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Domínguez-Rué, Emma, editor.

ProQuest ebook central.

Barton Hirst Lippincott Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine and the humanities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

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Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Part 1 Evidence-based and Patient-centred Care

Chapter 1 Action Competence as a Key Notion for Patient-Centred Care p. 8 / Arto Mutanen

Chapter 2 Utilization of Gynaecological Care and the Role of the Gynaecologist in Cytological Prevention in the Light of a Nationwide Survey in Poland p. 22 / Wlodzimierz Piatkowski and Anna Dudkowski-Sadowska

Chapter 3 Enemies of the People: Just Who is Entitled to use Evidence-based Critiques of Vaccination? p. 37 / Stephen Wallace

Part 2 Defining Medical Space

Chapter 4 Operating Room or Operating Theatre? Defining "Surgical Theatrics" on the Surgeon's Stage p. 56 / Cindy Avila

Chapter 5 Spa Architecture in Szczawno-Zdrój p. 72 / Maria Skomorowska

Chapter 6 The Garden as a Twenty-first Century Panacea? Trends in Shaping Gardens at Hospitals. A Case Study of Complexes in England and Poland p. 83 / Daria Slonina

Part 3 Exploring Medical History

Chapter 7 The Onion (Allium Cepa L.) in Late Ancient and Early Byzantine Medical Literature (I-VII Centuries AD) p. 108 / Krzysztof Jagusiak and Maciej Kokoszko

Chapter 8 The Changing Face of Glaucoma in History p. 126 / Tereza Kopecka

Chapter 9 Anthropology in Social Sciences and Popular Prose between Futuristic Fear and Advanced Algorithms: Human Obsolescence or Opportunity after Alliance with Artificial Intelligence, Nanotechnology, Social Robotics, and the Automation Economy? p. 141 / Konrad Gunesch

Part 4 Literary Portraits of Medicine

Chapter 10 Hunger Divine: Religious Elements and Cultural Assumptions about the Female Body in American Women's Narratives of Anorexia p. 164 / Emma Dominguez-Rué

Chapter 11 Wilkie Collins' Heart and Science and the Axiological Indeterminacy of Medical Discourse p. 186 / Emanuela Ettorre

Chapter 12 "[T]he Darker Side" of Medicine: The Victorian Novel and the "Scientization" of the Medical Professional p. 198 / Adrian Tait

Chapter 13 The Mute Body: Illness and Family Crisis in Late Imperial Chinese Fictional Medical Narratives p. 215 / Ying Wang.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource ; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 8, 2019).

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Barton Hirst Lippincott Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781527536272

1527536270

Publisher Number:

99981511045

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.