Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities
Dementia and Graphic Medicine: Beyond the Living Death Narrative
1st Edition
By Laboni Das, Sathyaraj Venkatesan
March 02, 2026
Dementia and Graphic Medicine explores how graphic medicine—through memoirs by caregivers and families—offers nuanced understandings and humane representations of individuals with dementia that restore their personhood, dignity, and agency. Dementia, a neurodegenerative condition, often reduces ...
Organization Studies and Medical Humanities: A New Lens for Organizing, Managing and Understanding Health and Healthcare
1st Edition
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By Andrea Bernardi, Roberto Lusardi, Federica Angeli, Barbara Quacquarelli
February 25, 2026
This book explores the under-researched theoretical and empirical intersection between organization studies and the medical humanities, highlighting cutting-edge work on complex healthcare organizations using methods and theories from the humanities. Showcasing an emerging sub-field, this book ...
Ageism and Person-Centred Care: Rehabilitating Bias for Age-Friendly Practice
1st Edition
By Stephen Buetow
December 26, 2025
This thought-provoking book exposes the values, judgements, and hierarchies that underlie ageism in care settings. Destabilizing the assumption that biases like ageism are always bad, Buetow suggests that ageism is normatively neutral and that truly person-centred care requires situated ...
Music and the Experience of Memory Loss: Understanding Dementia as a Form of Neurodiversity
1st Edition
By Samantha Harrold
September 15, 2025
This book is a creative and critical exploration of the memory loss experience. Drawing on in-depth case studies based on primary research, interviews, approaches from music therapy, and theory from Derrida, Malabou, and Royle, it explores how we might better support people living with memory loss....
Reproduction and the Maternal Body in Literature and Culture: Bodies of Knowledge, 1726-1818
1st Edition
By Jennifer S. Henke
May 13, 2025
This book examines a selection of texts to discuss how midwifery, obstetrics and women’s bodies were constructed during the (long) eighteenth century, and how these material-discursive entanglements between science, medicine, literature and culture have shaped society's views of pregnancy, ...
Metacognition, Metahumanities, and Medical Education: Thinking Without the Box
1st Edition
By Alan Bleakley, Quentin Eichbaum, Rachel Ellaway
September 30, 2024
This persuasive volume develops a novel approach to medical education and the medical humanities, making a case for the integration of the two to explore the ways in which ‘warm’ humanism and ‘cold’ technologies can come together to design humane posthumanist futures in medicine. There are many ...
Critical Humanities and Ageing: Forging Interdisciplinary Dialogues
1st Edition
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By Marlene Goldman, Kate de Medeiros, Thomas Cole
May 27, 2024
Providing a critical humanities approach to ageing, this book addresses new directions in age studies: the meaning and workings of "ageism" in the twenty-first century, the vexed relationship between age and disability studies, the meanings and experiences of "queer" aging; the fascinating, yet ...
From Loneliness to Solitude in Person-centred Health Care
1st Edition
By Stephen Buetow
May 27, 2024
This innovative book provides a new conceptual analysis of loneliness – a condition associated with severe health consequences, including increased morbidity and early death. Arguing that social connection is not the only answer, it explores pathways for transforming loneliness to healthy solitude....
Palliative Care Nursing as Mindfulness: Embodying a Relational Ethic through Strong Emotion, Uncertainty and Death
1st Edition
By Lacie White
May 27, 2024
As nurses, we hear about mindfulness all the time, but what does that actually mean in practice? In this book readers are invited into conversation to explore how mindfulness influences palliative care nurses’ approaches to caring for themselves and others through experiences of living-dying. ...
Poetry in the Clinic: Towards a Lyrical Medicine
1st Edition
By Alan Bleakley, Shane Neilson
May 27, 2024
This book explores previously unexamined overlaps between the poetic imagination and the medical mind. It shows how appreciation of poetry can help us to engage with medicine in more intense ways based on ‘de-familiarising’ old habits and bringing poetic forms of ‘close reading’ to the clinic. ...
Bioethics, Healthcare and the Soul
1st Edition
By Henk ten Have, Renzo Pegoraro
November 15, 2023
This thought-provoking book explores the connections between health, ethics, and soul. It analyzes how and why the soul has been lost from scientific discourses, healthcare practices, and ethical discussions, presenting suggestions for change. Arguing that the dominant scientific worldview has ...
Culture, Spirituality and Religious Literacy in Healthcare: Nordic Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Daniel Enstedt, Lisen Dellenborg
October 05, 2023
Elaborating with the concepts of culture and religious literacy, this volume examines theoretical, methodological and empirical aspects of the practice and study of religion and non-religion, culture, spirituality and worldviews within healthcare. In modern multi-cultural and multi-religious ...