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Routledge Handbook of Medicine and Poetry / edited by Alan Bleakley and Shane Neilson.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poetry--Therapeutic use.
- Poetry.
- Literature and medicine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (410 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, England : Routledge, [2024]
- Summary:
- The Routledge Handbook of Medicine and Poetry draws on an international selection of authors to ask what the cultures of poetry and medicine may gain from reciprocal critical engagement. The volume celebrates interdisciplinary inquiry, critique, and creative expansion with an emphasis upon amplifying provocative and marginalized voices.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction: 'What's past is prologue'
- Part 1 Conceptual and practical frames
- 1 Toward a poetics of illness and healing
- 2 The Hippocrates Initiative 2009-2022
- 3 Marking time: poetry as subject to narrative in medical education
- Part 2 Archaeology and genealogy
- In celebration of the word: introduction to EP Scarlett's 'Medicine and Poetry'
- 4 Medicine and Poetry
- 5 Medicine as poetry
- 6 What can medicine do for poetry? Poetry's incursions in the first year of the Canadian Medical Association Journal
- 7 Poetry and medicine
- 8 A poet in the clinic
- Part 3 Poiesis: metaphor elaborates experience
- 9 Positive negative
- 10 Embracing metaphor in pain medicine
- 11 Is the author dead in the poetry of disease? Authorship, modern poetry, and medical language
- 12 Nourished by experiences: meaning without metaphysics in the poetry of Dannie Abse
- 13 Debriding the moral injury
- Part 4 Neurodiversity and the colonizing of the other
- 14 Alda Merini and the making of lyrical psychiatry
- 15 Dear GP: psychiatry in the spotlight
- 16 The prairies always see you: a poetics of psychosis
- 17 The capaciousness of uncertainty: from standing over to becoming alongside
- 18 Sylvia Wynter and the poetics of psychiatry
- 19 Psychiatry's turf and poetry's field
- Part 5 The intimate soma
- 20 Body-related poetry therapy in psycho-oncology
- 21 Oncology and poetry: the case of Patrick Kavanagh
- 22 Clinical time and the poetry collection
- 23 Timecrevasses and breathcrystals: how poetry and philosophy can refresh an instrumental medicine to re-engage patients
- Part 6 Unsettling poetry and pedagogy
- 24 Medicine, poetry, and Iris Murdoch's invitation towards unselfing
- 25 Can poetry be used as a tool to enhance or maintain fine motor surgical skills?.
- 26 Unsettling medicine's coloniality: poetry's (missed?) anticolonial potential in medical education and practice
- 27 When caged birds sing: Black critical feminist poetry as a tool for political resistance, empowerment, and healing
- 28 Creative writing in medical education
- 29 On the reading list for all trainee medics: Autobiography of a Marguerite by Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle
- 30 Has the poetry of medicine burnt out?
- 31 Conclusions
- Acknowledgements
- Biographies
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781040019757
- 1040019757
- 9781040019733
- 1040019730
- 9781003341796
- 1003341799
- OCLC:
- 1422091680
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