Is literature healthy? / Josie Billington.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Billington, Josie, author.

Series:

Literary agenda.

Literary Agenda

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bibliotherapy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (156 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Medical Humanities comprises disciplines as diverse as literature, the visual and performing arts, the history of medicine, and bioethics. Josie Billington examines the value that literature adds to medical education in health training and practice, and defends the power of the arts as a remedial force.

Contents:

Cover; Is Literature Healthy?; Copyright; Dedication; Series Introduction; Contents; Introduction; Notes; 1: Healthy and Unhealthy Thoughts; Thoughts and Thinking: Bion's Theory; Proto-Thoughts; Pseudo-Thoughts; Alpha Thoughts; Unthinkable Thoughts; Notes; 2: Telling a New Story: Literary Narrative and Narrative Medicine; In Favour of Story; Against Narrative?; Notes; 3: Reading in Practice: Finding the Poetry; Notes; 4: Reading for Life; Notes; Acknowledgements; Copyright Acknowledgements; Select Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-103766-4