Routledge Handbook of the Medical Humanities

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Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of contributors
Introduction: the medical humanities—a mixed weather front
on a global scale
	The humanities are implicit in medicine, where democracy must be built
	Bone-tired, on skeletal resourcing, but muscling through—can the medical humanities help?
	Networks, border crossings, translations
	Surfing the waves of the medical humanities
	New horizons for the medical humanities
	Summary of the work of the medical humanities
	References
PART I: Medical humanities as networks, systems and translations
	Chapter 1: A dose of empathy from my Syrian doctor
	Chapter 2: The cultural crossings of care: a call for translational medical humanities
		Introduction
		Cura and the chronotopy of care
		Boundary work across the nature–culture divide
		The healing powers of translation: the case of Souad
		Towards a translational medical humanities
		Acknowledgement
		References
	Chapter 3: Medical work in transition: towards collaborative and transformative expertise
		Introduction
		Expertise as object-oriented activity systems
		Expertise as knotworking
		Expertise as expansive learning
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 4: Health, health care, and health education: problems, paradigms, and patterns
		Introduction
		The nature of patterns
		Traditional problems: the whole equals the sum of its parts
		Paradigms: shift happens
		Complex patterns: the whole is greater than, and different from, the sum of its parts
		Self-organisation in human systems
		The CDE Model
		Pattern Logic
		Adaptive Action
		What has been closed is disclosed
		Acknowledgements
		Note
		References
PART II: Democratising medicine: the medical humanities as forms of resistance
	Chapter 5: The state of the union: rigour and responsibility in US health humanities
		Expertise: who teaches?
		Content and methodology: what is taught and how?
		Evaluation: what are the goals, and how are they met?
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 6: The cutting edge: health humanities for equity and social justice
		Introduction
		Critical consciousness: the object of learning in critical humanities
		The power of stories
		Questioning postcolonialism and neocolonialism in decolonising medical education
		There is no social justice and equity without reflexivity: how does who I am influence what I see and how others see me?
		Putting the health humanities under a critical gaze
		Towards a dialogical approach to teaching for social justice
		Acknowledgements
		References
	Chapter 7: Geography as engaged medical-health-humanities
		Introduction
		Medical-health-humanities as approaches to capturing overlooked experiences
		Place and micro-aggressions in geographies of health
		Unpacking the relationship of inequality and geography in ‘Milk’
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 8: Challenging heteronormativity in medicine
		Introduction
		Defining heteronormativity
		Ab/normality and the production of heteronormativity in medicine
		The problem of heteronormativity in medicine
		Challenging heteronormativity in medicine
		References
	Chapter 9: Medical Nemesis 40 years on: the enduring legacy of Ivan Illich
		Introduction
		Themes of Medical Nemesis
		Prose style
		Medical Nemesis and Illich’s ‘apophasis’
		Contemporary reaction to Medical Nemesis
		Have Illich’s prophecies come true?
		Influence of Illich
		Acknowledgement
		References
	Chapter 10: Hospitaland
		Tour of Hospitaland
		Themes in Hospitaland
		References
PART III: Medicine’s metaphors and rhetoric
	Chapter 11: Don’t breathe a word: a psychoanalysis of medicine’s inflations
		My father’s death
		Medicine’s inflation
		Putting medicine on the couch
		The aerial imagination
		Combat breathing and the survival of the sickest
		References
	Chapter 12: Metaphor as art: a thought experiment
		Notes
		Acknowledgements
		References
	Chapter 13: The practice of metaphor
		The doctors I admire
		The why of metaphoric intervention
		The how of metaphoric intervention
		Notes
		References
		Appendix
		Excerpt from actual chart note
	Chapter 14: Medical slang: symptom or solution?
		Introduction
		A blueberry muffin baby
		Why culinary metaphors?
		Language, epistemology, and practice
		Conflicting messages
		Medical education as socialisation
		Saying what we really mean
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 15: Ageism and rhetoric
		Preface
		Ageism: an introduction
		My subject position
		Methodology and theory
		Rhetorical observations
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 16: The rhetorical possibilities of a multi-metaphorical view of clinical supervision
		Conceptual framework: what’s in a metaphor?
		Conventional metaphors: how do we currently know clinical supervision?
		Emerging metaphors: how can we otherwise understand clinical supervision?
		Conclusion: what are the rhetorical possibilities of a multi-metaphorical view?
		References
	Chapter 17: The chaotic narratives of anti-vaccination
		Narratives of anti-vaccination
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 18: Thought curfew: empathy’s endgame?
		The conceit
		The context
		The consent
		The curfew
		Note
		References
		Acknowledgements
PART IV: Medicine as performance and public engagement
	Chapter 19: The performing arts in medicine and medical education
		Introduction
		Scene I: 
		Scene II: an air of verisimilitude—’front stage’ and ‘back stage’ as a theory of social action in medicine
		Scene III: mimesis—simulation and sensibility
		Scene IV: so much more real than life—authenticity and expertise
		Entr’acte:  seeking ‘empathy’
		Scene V: that within which passes show—improvising the future
		Scene VI: finale
		References
	Chapter 20: A manifesto for artists’ books and the medical humanities
		What is (not) an artist’s book?
		The aesthetic and political characteristics of artists’ books
		The book as matter and metaphor
		Artists’ books and the medical humanities
		To make a book is . . .
		Patient ???? doctor relations
		The radical pedagogy of artists’ books
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 21: Grasping emergency care through pop culture: the truths and lies of film, television and other video-based media
		Pop culture consumers
		Doctor–patient relationship
		Replacing the bedside assessment with technology
		Bias and diversity
		Journey of a doctor over a lifetime
		Future thinking in emergency pop culture
		Controlling the narrative
		References
	Chapter 22: Who is the audience for the medical/health humanities?
		How do we think about audiences?
		Who are our audiences and how can we engage with them?
		Why do we want to engage with these audiences?
		References
		Recommended reading
	Chapter 23: Desire imagination action: Theatre of the Oppressed in medical education
		The problem
		Theatre of the Oppressed and medical humanities
		What happens in TO workshops
		Challenges and reason for hope
		Note
		Reference
		Further reading
	Chapter 24: Zombie sickness: contagious ideas in performance
		References
	Chapter 25: The masks of uncertainty
PART V: Embodiment and disembodiment
	Chapter 26: Nobody’s home
	Chapter 27: Ecstasy
		To know what happens, what is
		The chosen vulnerability
		Anxiety and resolve
		High-risk leisure
		Ecstasy
		References
	Chapter 28: Relationships that matter: embodying absent kinships in the Japanese child welfare system
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 29: Still Alice? Ethical aspects of conceptualising selfhood in dementia
		Recognition
		Responsibility
		Rethinking the two tendencies via Still Alice
		Acknowledgement
		References
	Chapter 30: Body Maps: reframing embodied experiences through ethnography and art
		Introduction
		We are all embodied beings
		Embodiment and ethnography
		Reading the body
		History of Body Mapping
		Ethnographic Body Maps
		Note
		References
	Chapter 31: Perspectives on olfaction in medical culture
		References
PART VI: The medical humanities in medical education
	Chapter 32: The ‘awe-full’ fascination of pathology
		Medical pathology as a human science
		Awe-full metaphors in pathology
		The meta/neurocognitive perspective
		Engendering awe-full fascination in medical education
		Summary
		References
	Chapter 33: Biomedical ethics and the medical humanities: sensing the aesthetic
		Introduction
		Biomedical ethics and medical humanities understood conventionally
		The medical humanities
		Commonalities between biomedical ethics and medical humanities understood conventionally
		Biomedical ethics and medical humanities understood as aesthetic practices
		Biomedical ethics as an aesthetic
		The medical humanities as an aesthetic
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 34: Medical humanities online: experiences from South Africa
		Introduction
		The motivation for ‘going online’
		Transforming a face-to-face course into an online format
		The experience of online learning
		The interaction of online and face-to-face courses
		What is the role of online education in medical humanities?
		Is online learning a feasible and suitable medium for promoting the field more broadly?
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 35: ‘Your effort was great/you carried me nine months’: the birth of medical humanities in Ethiopia
		When I hear your name
		Notes
	Chapter 36: Medical humanities in Canadian medical schools: progress, challenges and opportunities
		Introduction
		Methods
		Findings
		At the heart of it: tales from the field
		Interpretation
		Acknowledgements
		References
		Appendices
		Appendix B
		Appendix C
PART VII: The patient will see you now
	Chapter 37: Can we make empathy more intelligent? Try social empathy!
		Note
		References
	Chapter 38: A letter from Marijke Boucherie to Alan Bleakley
		References
	Chapter 39: Health humanities: a democratising future beyond medical humanities
		Introduction and background
		Creative Practice as Mutual Recovery
		Acknowledgements
		References
	Chapter 40: Doctors need safe confessional and cathartic spaces: what we learned from the research project ‘People Talking: Digital Dialogues for Mutual Recovery’
		Doctors losing libido
		The pilot project
		Theoretical underpinning to the pilot project
		Key findings
		Conclusions and implications
		References
	Chapter 41: All thanks to the words of a stranger: an homage to the UK’s National Health Service
		Doctor
		Patient
PART VIII: Overview: celebrating the flaw in the Persian rug
	Chapter 42: Negotiating research in the medical humanities
		Aesthetics and the politics of resistance
		The politics of expertise: competing for authority in medical humanities
		The medical humanities as educational practice
		Conclusion: towards an aesthetics of praxis
		References
Index