Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities
Contemporary Physician-Authors: Exploring the Insights of Doctors Who Write
1st Edition
Edited
By Nathan Carlin
September 25, 2023
This book examines the phenomenon of physician-authors. Focusing on the books that contemporary doctors write--the stories that they tell--with contributors critically engaging their work. A selection of original chapters from leading scholars in medical and health humanities analyze the literary ...
Bodies and Suffering: Emotions and Relations of Care
1st Edition
By Ana Dragojlovic, Alex Broom
May 31, 2023
This book is a critical response to a range of problems – some theoretical, others empirical – that shape questions surrounding the lived experience of suffering. It explores how moral and ethical questions of personal suffering are experienced, contested, negotiated and institutionalised. Bodies ...
Communicating Pain: Exploring Suffering through Language, Literature and Creative Writing
1st Edition
By Stephanie de Montalk
May 31, 2023
Combining critical research with memoir, essay, poetry and creative biography, this insightful volume sensitively explores the lived experience of chronic pain. Confronting the language of pain and the paradox of writing about personal pain, Communicating Pain is a personal response to the ...
Medical Education, Politics and Social Justice: The Contradiction Cure
1st Edition
By Alan Bleakley
May 31, 2023
This book critically analyses how politics and power affect the ways that medicine is taught and learned. Challenging society’s historic reluctance to connect the realm of politics to the realm of medicine, Medical Education, Politics and Social Justice: The Contradiction Cure emphasizes the need ...
Medical Humanities, Sociology and the Suffering Self: Surviving Health
1st Edition
By Wendy Lowe
May 31, 2023
Following criticisms of the traditionally polarized view of understanding suffering through either medicine or social justice, Lowe makes a compelling argument for how the medical humanities can help to go beyond the traditional biographical and epistemic breaks to see into the nature and ...
Moments of Rupture: The Importance of Affect in Medical Education and Surgical Training: Perspectives from Professional Learning and Philosophy
1st Edition
By A. O. Mahendran
May 31, 2023
Surgery is a craft specialty: ‘doing’ in response to what is seen, felt and anticipated. The potent odours and the raw images of flesh, elicit strong sensations and responses in the here-and-now or ‘thisness’ (haecceities) of practice. These experiences, trigger a world of affects and senses that ...
Reconsidering Dementia Narratives: Empathy, Identity and Care
1st Edition
By Rebecca Bitenc
May 31, 2023
Reconsidering Dementia Narratives explores the role of narrative in developing new ways of understanding, interacting with, and caring for people with dementia. It asks how the stories we tell about dementia – in fiction, life writing and film – both reflect and shape the way we think about this ...
Rethinking Pain in Person-Centred Health Care: Around Recovery
1st Edition
By Stephen Buetow
May 31, 2023
This book explores how person-centred health care could be refined to help persons alleviate pain-related distress and construct pain as a potentially positive experience. Rethinking Pain in Person-Centred Health Care is a fascinating contribution to the multidisciplinary literature on ...
A Whole Person Approach to Wellbeing: Building Sense of Safety
1st Edition
By Johanna Lynch
August 01, 2022
This book builds on the person-centred medicine movement to promote a shift in the philosophy of care of distress. It discusses the vital importance of whole person health, healing and growth. Developing a new transdisciplinary concept of sense of safety, this book argues that the whole person ...
Educating Doctors' Senses Through the Medical Humanities: "How Do I Look?"
1st Edition
By Alan Bleakley
September 30, 2021
Educating Doctors’ Senses Through the Medical Humanities: "How Do I Look?" uses the medical diagnostic method to identify a chronic symptom in medical culture: the unintentional production of insensibility through compulsory mis-education. This book identifies the symptom and its origins and ...
Reading the Psychosomatic in Medical and Popular Culture: Something. Nothing. Everything
1st Edition
Edited
By Carol-Ann Farkas
September 30, 2021
Pain. Chronic digestive symptoms. Poor sleep. Neuropathy. Sensory disturbances. Fatigue. Panic. Constant illness and discomfort. Frequent difficulty coping with work, school, relationships. Despite the common experience of being told that it’s all in their heads, that they’re just making ...
Storytelling Encounters as Medical Education: Crafting Relational Identity
1st Edition
By Sally G. Warmington
September 30, 2021
This innovative volume provides fresh perspectives on how medical students and patients construct identities in relation to each other, using stories of their clinical encounters. It explores how paying attention to medical students’ and patients’ stories in clinical teaching encounters can ...