Literature and Medicine / edited by Anna M. Elsner and Monika Pietrzak-Franger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Elsner, Anna Magdalena, 1982- editor.

Pietrzak-Franger, Monika, editor.

Series:

Cambridge critical concepts

Cambridge Critical Concepts Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and medicine.

Medicine in literature.

Health in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 388 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"Literature and Medicine considers how these two dynamic fields have crossed over, and how they have developed alongside one another. It covers a broad spectrum of conceptual, thematic, theoretical, and methodological approaches that provide a solid foundation for understanding a vibrant interdisciplinary field"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Guts, hollows, and coils : inside stories in ancient literature / Chiara Thumiger

Medieval affect, The Book of Magery Kempe, and medical treatments of the embodied self / Holly A. Crocker

Epidemiological language in Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy / Jennifer Radden

Illness and the novel aesthetics / Hosanna Krienke

Embodies traumas in the twentieth and twenty-first century literature / Alan Gibbs

Illness and the 'fall' of language / Steven Wilson

Translating chronic pain and ethics of reading in the personal essay / Marie Allitt

Physician-poets and vitalist theories of life / James Morland

Healthcare anecdotes and the medically anecdotal / Brian Hurwitz

Literary realism and mental breakdown / Josie Billington

Time and narrative in the age of postnatural death : Maylis de Kerangal's The Heart / Jared Stark

Performance and/as contagion in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic / Małgorzata Sugiera

The parallel chart as medico-literary practice / Daniel Eison

Articulating the experiential in graphic medicine / Kimberly R. Myers

Malaria literature : (post)colonial perspectives, infection, and the question of mobility / Jessica Howell and Oishani Sengupta

Forgotten class : French literature, medicine, and poverty / Loïc Bourdeau

The human endeavor : bioethics and biocapitalism in Don DeLillo's Zero K / Justin Omar Johnston

Re-framing and re-forming disability literature / Susannah B. Mintz

Overcoming decline (in) narrative : episodicity in stories of dementia and ageing / Martina Zimmerman

Literature as a form of care? : from therapeutic narratives to the literature of care / Alexandre Gefen

Literature in collaboration : the work of literature in the critical medical humanities / Angel Woods and James Rákóczi

Afterword : medicine and literature after COVID-19 / Anna M. Elsner and Monika Pietrzak-Franger

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781009300094

1009300091

9781009300087

1009300083

9781009300070

1009300075