Medical humanity and inhumanity in the German-speaking world / edited by Mererid Puw Davies and Sonu Shamdasani.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davies, Mererid Puw, editor.

Shamdasani, Sonu, 1962- editor.

Series:

Fringe (UCL Press)

Fringe

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 229 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

London : University College London, [2020]

Summary:

Medical Humanity and Inhumanity in the German-Speaking World is the first volume dedicated to exploring the interface of medicine, the human and the humane in the German-speaking lands. The volume tracks the designation and making through medicine of the human and inhuman, and the humane and inhumane, from the Middle Ages to the present day. Eight individual chapters undertake explorations into ways in which theories and practices of medicine in the German-speaking world have come to define the human, and highlight how such theories and practices have consolidated, or undermined, notions of humane behaviour. Cultural analysis is central to this investigation, foregrounding the reflection, refraction and indeed creation of these theories and practices in literature, life-writing and other discourses and media. Contributors bring to bear perspectives from literary studies, film studies, critical theory, cultural studies, history, and the history of medicine and psychiatry. Thus, this collection is historical in the most expansive sense, for it debates not only what historical accounts bring to our understanding of this topic. It encompasses too investigation of life-writing, documentary, and theory and literary works to bring to light elusive, paradoxical, underexplored - yet vital - issues in history and culture.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

List of figures

Notes on contributors

Preface

1 Medical In/Humanities: The Human and the Humane in the German-Speaking World. An Introduction

2 Pain and Laughter Dental Treatment as a Comic Motif in Medieval and Early Modem Literature

3 Combat, Military Medicine and Psychiatric Disorders during and after the Wars of Unification

4 From Neurosis to a New Cure of Souls: C.G. Jung's Remaking of the Psychotherapeutic Patient

5 C.G. Jung and the Bemeuchen Movement Meditation and Active Imagination in Jungian Psychotherapy and Protestant Spiritual Practice in the 1930s

6 Humane Horrors: The Dentist in Gunter Grass's brtlich betaubt / Local Anaesthetic (1969)

7 Inhumane Institutions: Witielm Genazino's Clinical Treatments

8 Medical Experiments on Humans in Kerstin Hensel's Larchenau (2008)

9 Burnout Therapy. Cool Conduct and Cold Cinema

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-78735-771-6