Literature and medicine /
Literature and Medicine considers how these two dynamic fields have crossed over, and how they have developed alongside one another. It covers a broad spectrum of conceptual, thematic, theoretical and methodological approaches that provide a solid foundation for understanding a vibrant interdiscipli...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2024.
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| Series: | Cambridge critical concepts.
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Table of Contents:
- Guts, hollows, and coils : inside stories in ancient literature / Chiara Thumiger
- Medieval affect, The Book of Magery Kempe, and medical treatments of the embodied self / Holly A. Crocker
- Epidemiological language in Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy / Jennifer Radden
- Illness and the novel aesthetics / Hosanna Krienke
- Embodies traumas in the twentieth and twenty-first century literature / Alan Gibbs
- Illness and the 'fall' of language / Steven Wilson
- Translating chronic pain and ethics of reading in the personal essay / Marie Allitt
- Physician-poets and vitalist theories of life / James Morland
- Healthcare anecdotes and the medically anecdotal / Brian Hurwitz
- Literary realism and mental breakdown / Josie Billington
- Time and narrative in the age of postnatural death : Maylis de Kerangal's The Heart / Jared Stark
- Performance and/as contagion in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic / Małgorzata Sugiera
- The parallel chart as medico-literary practice / Daniel Eison
- Articulating the experiential in graphic medicine / Kimberly R. Myers
- Malaria literature : (post)colonial perspectives, infection, and the question of mobility / Jessica Howell and Oishani Sengupta
- Forgotten class : French literature, medicine, and poverty / Loïc Bourdeau
- The human endeavor : bioethics and biocapitalism in Don DeLillo's Zero K / Justin Omar Johnston
- Re-framing and re-forming disability literature / Susannah B. Mintz
- Overcoming decline (in) narrative : episodicity in stories of dementia and ageing / Martina Zimmerman
- Literature as a form of care? : from therapeutic narratives to the literature of care / Alexandre Gefen
- Literature in collaboration : the work of literature in the critical medical humanities / Angel Woods and James Rákóczi
- Afterword : medicine and literature after COVID-19 / Anna M. Elsner and Monika Pietrzak-Franger.