Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Digital Storytelling in Health and Social Policy: Listening to Marginalised Voices
1st Edition
By Nicole Matthews, Naomi Sunderland
August 27, 2019
As digital life stories continue to assume more and more significance across a range of institutions, so too does their potential to bring into focus once marginalised and neglected voices. Breaking new ground by reframing multimedia life stories as a resource for education, public health, and ...
Dementia and Literature: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Tess Maginess
June 06, 2019
Dementia is an urgent global concern, often termed a widespread ‘problem’, ‘tragedy’ or ‘burden’ and a subject best addressed by health and social policy and practice. However, creative writers can offer powerful and imaginative insights into the experience of dementia across cultures and over time...
Thinking with Metaphors in Medicine: The State of the Art
1st Edition
By Alan Bleakley
May 07, 2019
While medical language is soaked in metaphor, and thinking with metaphor is central to diagnostic work, medicine – that is, medical culture, clinical practice and medical education – outwardly rejects metaphor for objective, literal scientific language. This thought-provoking book argues that this ...
Person-centred Health Care: Balancing the Welfare of Clinicians and Patients
1st Edition
By Stephen Buetow
March 28, 2019
Person-centred health care is increasingly endorsed as a key element of high-quality care, yet, in practice, it often means patient-centred health care. This book scrutinizes the principle of primacy of patient welfare, which, although deeply embedded in health professionalism, is long overdue for ...
Learning Disability and Inclusion Phobia: Past, Present, Future
1st Edition
By C. F. Goodey
December 21, 2017
The social position of learning disabled people has shifted rapidly over the last 20 years, from long-stay institutions, first into community homes and day centres, and now to a currently emerging goal of "ordinary lives" for individuals using person-centred support and personal budgets. These ...
Suffering Narratives of Older Adults: A Phenomenological Approach to Serious Illness, Chronic Pain, Recovery and Maternal Care
1st Edition
By Mary Beth Morrissey
February 27, 2017
In Suffering Narratives of Older Adults, Mary Beth Quaranta Morrissey turns to the traditions of phenomenology, humanistic psychology and social work to provide an in-depth exploration of the deep structure of the suffering experience. She draws upon the notion of maternal holding to develop an ...
Collaborative Arts-based Research for Social Justice
1st Edition
By Victoria Foster
December 05, 2016
This book provides a thought-provoking guide to conducting collaborative arts-based research. Focusing on ways that social inquiry might be conducted with marginalised groups to promote social justice, the text offers chapters on: Telling ‘alternative’ stories through a variety of methods from ...