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Routledge Handbook of Medicine and Poetry / edited by Alan Bleakley and Shane Neilson.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Bleakley, Alan (Alan Douglas), editor.
Neilson, Shane, 1975- editor.
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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