Introduction to Medical Humanities: Medicine and the Italian Artistic Heritage

Introduction
	A Course in Medical Humanities in Padua
		Medical Humanities
		The Book
Contents
Chapter 1: The Medical Humanities
	1 ``Humanitas´´ and Its Variants: A Family of Meanings
		``Humanization´´? No Thanks!
		Applying Medicine in the Wake of Humanism
		Medicine as a ``Humanitarian´´ Activity
		Humanity/Inhumanity: When Medicine Is Result-Oriented
		Health Practitioners´ ``Humanity´´
	2 The ``Medical Humanities´´ in Practice
		The Integration of the ``Two Cultures´´
		From the Culture of Rights to the ``Empowerment´´ of the Citizen
		Beyond ``Bellettristic´´: The Arts as Interlocutors
	References
Chapter 2: Clinical Ethics in the Context of Medical Humanities
	1 Introduction
	2 The Crisis in Medicine and in Bioethics
	3 Medical Humanities and the Concept of Acknowledgment
	4 Clinical Ethics Consultation: A Possible Common Point
	5 What Kind of Specific Training? An Italian Experience
	6 Conclusions
	Bibliography
Chapter 3: Perspectives on ``Mediterranean Bioethics´´
	1 Introduction
	2 Why a ``Mediterranean Bioethics´´?
	3 The Future Perspective on ``Mediterranean Bioethics´´
	Bibliography
Chapter 4: Medical Liability: Two Historical Cases from Padua
	1 Introduction
	2 Case I: The Doctor-Patient Relationship between ``Ethics´´ and ``Cunning´´ - Gabriele Zerbi
	3 Case II: The Cynical Doctor - Alessandro Knips Macoppe
	4 Conclusions
	References
Chapter 5: Medical Issues in Italian Frescoes
	1 Introduction
		How Can We Use Italian Frescoes in Medical Humanities?
	2 (Medical) Humanity Through Italian Frescoes
	3 Anatomical Knowledge and Italian Frescoes
	4 Medical Diagnosis Through Italian Frescoes
	5 Disability Through Italian Frescoes
	6 Epidemics Through Italian Frescoes
	Bibliography
Chapter 6: The Sculpted Body: Interferences Between Beauty and Anatomy
	1 Introduction
	2 Body Representations: The Experience of the Sacred
	3 Anatomical Knowledge: Dissection and Relics
	4 The Drawing
	5 Michelangelo´s Legacy
	6 Conclusions
	Bibliography
		Middle Ages
		Renaissance
		Image and Emotion
Chapter 7: Clinical Narratives: Stories and Ethics in Healthcare
	1 Introduction
	2 Narratives and Metaphors of Health and Disease, Illness, and Care
	3 Between Medicine Based on Scientific Evidence and Medicine That Listens to Stories: The Return of the Humanities in Clinical...
	4 Stories Between Moral Imagination and Narrative Identity
	5 Stories of Patients and Carers
	6 For a Phenomenology of Illness
	7 Care Among Moral Life, Existential Dynamics, and Institutional Realities
	References
Chapter 8: Viral Pandemics and the Advent of Neo-Renaissance: A Lacanian Reading of Dan Brown´s Inferno
	1 Introduction
	2 Plot Summary
	3 Conceptual Framework and Design: The Four Discourses
	4 First ``Therapy´´: Awakening the Unworldly Expert (the Mutual Exposure of Past and Present)
	5 Second ``Therapy´´: A Craving Prodigy and the Matheme of Desire
	6 Third ``Therapy´´: Bertrand Zobrist - Psychopath or Therapist?
	7 Fourth ``Therapy´´: The Policy of Denial
	8 Resume: Inferno´s Basic Structure in Terms of the Four Discourses
	9 The Object a as ``Actor´´
	10 Implications for Virology
	Bibliography
Chapter 9: Psychic Life and Things: Architecture, Urbanism, and Pan-Diadromous
	1 Signs and Signals in the Surroundings
	2 Landscape and Temple
	3 Prosthetic Objects: Contemplation and Construction
	4 Psychiatry and Places of ``Madness´´
	5 Architecture and Urban Planning for the Psychic Life
	6 Objects, Clothing, Transportation, and Design: Prostheses of Psychic Life with the Emergence of Connectomical Objects
	7 Toward Connectomical Landscapes
	8 The Connectomical Architecture
	Bibliography
Chapter 10: A Narrative Shift for Clinical Bioethics: The Role of Cinema
	1 Crisis
	2 Shift
	3 Risks
	Bibliography
Chapter 11: The Hunter Gracchus: A Franz Kafka Story of Death´s Dehumanization
	References
Chapter 12: Why Not Dream? Murano: Glass and Spirit
	1 Introduction
	2 A Bit of History
	3 Writing Poetry on Glass
	4 Transforming Emotions into a Glasswork
	5 Conclusions
	Bibliography
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index