The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities - (Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities) (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>This is the first volume to comprehensively introduce the ways in which interdisciplinary thinking across the humanities and social sciences might contribute to, critique and develop medical understanding of the human individually and collectively. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>This is the first volume to comprehensively introduce the ways in which interdisciplinary thinking across the humanities and social sciences might contribute to, critique and develop medical understanding of the human individually and collectively. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>*APPROVED* 'The Medical Humanities have been at the cutting edge of interdisciplinary research in the late twentieth century. But where should it go now? This volume demonstrates why the future lies with developing an exhilarating, robust and provocative critical medical humanities, and shows us how it can be done.' Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck, University of London A field-defining collection of original critical engagements at the intersection of the biomedical sciences, arts, humanities and social sciences In this landmark Companion, expert contributors from around the world map out the field of the critical medical humanities. This is the first volume to introduce comprehensively the ways in which interdisciplinary thinking across the humanities and social sciences might contribute to, critique and develop medical understanding of the human individually and collectively. The thirty-six newly commissioned chapters range widely within and across disciplinary fields, always alert to the intersections between medicine, as broadly defined, and critical thinking. Each chapter offers suggestions for further reading on the issues raised, and each section concludes with an Afterword, written by a leading critic, outlining future possibilities for cutting-edge work in this area. Topics covered in this volume include: the affective body, biomedicine, blindness, breath, disability, early modern medical practice, fatness, the genome, language, madness, narrative, race, systems biology, performance, the postcolonial, public health, touch, twins, voice and wonder. Together the chapters generate a body of new knowledge and make a decisive intervention into how health, medicine and clinical care might address questions of individual, subjective and embodied experience. Anne Whitehead is a Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Newcastle University. Angela Woods is a Senior Lecturer in Medical Humanities and Deputy Director at the Centre for Medical Humanities, Durham University. Cover image: Bullet Proof Breath (detail), 2001, Christine Borland, in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia. Glass and spider silk (c) Christine Borland. Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-0004-6 Barcode<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>...a large and well-structured volume with a great deal of ambition.</p>--Sepehr Hafizi, University of Cambridge "The British Society for Literature and Science "<br><br>[An] epic, much-awaited collection of essays that brings together an impressive list of established and emerging scholars from around the world, and provides rich insights into the current shape of the medical humanities.--Dr Stella Bolaki, Centre for Medical Humanities<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Anne Whitehead is Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Newcastle University, UK. She is the author of <i>Trauma Fiction</i> (Edinburgh, 2004) and <i>Memory: New Critical Idiom</i> (Routledge, 2009). She has co-edited <i>The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities</i> (Edinburgh, 2016), <i>Theories of Memory: A Reader</i> (Edinburgh, 2007) and <i>W. G. Sebald: A Critical Companion</i> (Edinburgh, 2004), as well as a special issue of <i>Feminist Theory</i> on feminism and affect. She has published articles on contemporary literature in a range of journals, including <i>Modern Fiction Studies</i>, <i>Textual Practice</i>, and <i>Contemporary Literature</i>. <p>Angela Woods is Senior Lecturer in Medical Humanities at Durham University and Co-Director of Hearing the Voice, a large interdisciplinary research project on voice-hearing (auditory verbal hallucination) supported by the Wellcome Trust (2012-2020). She is the author of The Sublime Object of Psychiatry: Schizophrenia in Clinical and Cultural Theory (Oxford University Press, 2011) and has published in leading medical humanities and mental health journals including Schizophrenia Bulletin, Journal of Mental Health and The Lancet Psychiatry. Angela is Deputy Director of the Durham Centre for Medical Humanities and Associate Editor of the BMJ's Medical Humanities Journal. <p>Sarah Atkinson is Senior Lecturer in Digital Cultures at King's College London. <p>Jane Macnaughton is Professor of Medical Humanities and Co-Director of the Centre for Medical Humanities at Durham University. She became Deputy Head of the School of Medicine and Health in 2009. She has published in medical education, medical humanities, literature and medicine, history of medicine and health care environments, and she currently holds a Wellcome Senior Investigator Award for a project on The Life of Breath. <p>Jennifer Richards is Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture at Newcastle University. Her books include Rhetoric (Routledge 2007) and Rhetoric and Courtliness in Early Modern Literature (Cambridge 2003; 2007), and collections of essays for Edinburgh University Press, Routledge, and Palgrave Macmillan. She is currently working on a new monograph on the history of reading aloud in the English Renaissance, for which she has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship.<p>
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