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Body talk in the medical humanities : whose language? / edited by Jennifer Patterson and Francia Kinchington.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Patterson, Jennifer
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine and the humanities.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (331 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2019]
- Summary:
- This exciting book draws on the insight and experience of 21 medical practitioners and researchers in the wider field of the medical humanities to ask fundamental questions related to illness, bodily experience, the experience and role of medical and healthcare professionals, and the contribution of language and communication to enable understanding. It opens up a range of conversations, reflections and research to present an innovative approach to the field of body studies, investigating complex questions that are associated with self and body and medical and healthcare professionals who work with bodies that are ill. Areas of pain, disability, vulnerability, life experienced through chronic conditions and the insights of listening to the ill and the dying are examined within the individual contributions. The chapters explore a range of key spaces, gaps and tensions between talk and bodies, from embodied experiences and patient-doctor relationships to negotiating institutional constraints and reading, looking and enacting as methods of improving intersubjective, relational and ethical practices.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Section One: Whose Bodies, Which Bodies?
- Chapter One
- Chapter Two
- Chapter Three
- Chapter Four
- Section Two: Whose Bodies? Patients, Doctors and Society
- Chapter Five
- Chapter Six
- Chapter Seven
- Chapter Eight
- Chapter Nine
- Section Three: Whose Language, Whose Voices? Inside Medical Worlds
- Chapter Ten
- Chapter Eleven
- Chapter Twelve
- Chapter Thirteen
- Section Four: Which Language? Cultural Diagnostics
- Chapter Fourteen
- Chapter Fifteen
- Chapter Sixteen
- Section Five: Which Language? Bodies Talking
- Chapter Seventeen
- Chapter Eighteen
- Chapter Nineteen
- Chapter Twenty
- Chapter Twenty-One
- Biographies.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-5275-4232-7
- OCLC:
- 1127222720
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