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xiii, 603 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm |
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text rdacontent |
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unmediated rdamedia |
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volume rdacarrier |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 517-567) and index |
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Introduction: The why, the what, and the how of the medical/health humanities / Therese Jones, Delese Wear, and Lester D. Friedman -- |
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I. Disease and illness ; 1. Being a good story: the humanities as therapeutic practice / Arthur W. Frank -- 2. Illuminating the it, thee, and we of disease and illness: The Metamorphosis and related works / David H. Flood and Rhonda L. Soricelli -- 3. "This weird, incurable disease": competing diagnoses in the rhetoric of Morgellons / Lisa Keränen -- 4. My quest for health / Michael Sappol and Shelley Wall -- |
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II. Disability ; 5. Disability in two doctor stories / Martha Stoddard Holmes -- 6. Music and disability / Joseph N. Straus -- 7. American narrative films and disability: an uneasy history / Martin F. Norden -- 8. Standout / Lisa I. Iezzoni -- |
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III. Death and dying ; 9. When the doctor is not god: the impact of religion on medical decision making at the end of life / Felicia Cohn -- 10. Postmodern death and dying: a literary analysis / Martha Montello and John Lantos -- 11. Second degree block: poem and commentary / Amy Haddad -- |
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IV. Patient-professional relationships ; 12. Social studies: the humanities, narrative, and the social context of the patient-professional relationship / Rebecca Garden -- 13. Humanities and the medical home / Mark Clark, Howard Brody, and Rebecca Hester -- 14. Occupational medicine / Jack Coulehan -- |
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V. The body ; 15. The virtues of the imperfect body / Rosemarie Tong -- 16. Seeing bodies in pain / Sander L. Gilman -- 17. Public fetuses / Bernice L. Hausman -- 18. More body: a performance for five (or more) bodies / Gretchen A. Case -- |
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VI. Gender and sexuality ; 19. Adult intake form / Allan Peterkin -- 20. What is sex for? or, the many uses of the vag / Alice Dreger -- 21. "I always prefer the scissors": Isaac Baker Brown and feminist histories of medicine / Marjorie Levine-Clark -- 22. Comics in the health humanities: a new approach to sex and gender education / Susan M. Squier -- 23. I am Gula, hear me roar: on gender and medicine / Rafael Campo -- |
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VII. Race and class ; 24. Listening as freedom: narrative, health, and social justice / Sayantani Dasgupta -- 25. Race and mental health / Jonathan M. Metzl -- 26. Law's hand in race, class, and health inequities: on the humanities and the social determination of health / Daniel Goldberg -- 27. The rooms of our souls / Maren Grainger-Monsen -- |
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VIII. Aging ; 28. "Old age isn't a battle, it's a massacre": reading Philip Roth's Everyman / Thomas R. Cole and Benjamin Saxton -- 29. "Do you remember me?" construction of Alzheimer's Disease in literature and film / E. Ann Kaplan -- 30. Love in the time of dementia / Jerald Winakur -- |
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IX. Mental illness ; 31. Narrating our sadness, with a little help from the humanities / Brad Lewis -- 32. Teaching narratives of mental illness / Anne Hudson Jones -- 33. Community psychiatry and the medical humanities / Michael Rowe -- 34. Culpability / Ian Williams -- |
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X. Spirituality and religion ; 35. Rites of bioethics / Tod Chambers -- 36. Health and humanities: spirituality and religion / Raymond C. Barfirld and Lucy Selman -- 37. Scientia Mortis and the Ars Moriendi: to the memory of Norman / Jeffrey P. Bishop -- 38. Meditations of an anesthesiologist: poem and commentary / Audrey Shafer -- |
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XI. Science and technology ; 39. Andromeda's futures: a story of humanities, technology, science, and art / Catherine Belling -- 40. Knowing and seeing: reconstructing Frankenstein / Paul Root Wolpe -- 41. A brief history of love: a rationale for the history of epidemics / Allison B. Kavey -- 42. Calcedonies / Jeff Nisker -- |
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XII. Health professions education ; 43. Teaching autism through naturalized narrative ethics: closing the divide between bioethics and medical humanities / Julie M. Aultman -- 44. Courting discomfort in an undergraduate health humanities classroom / Michael Blackie and Erin Gentry Lamb -- 45. The medical humanities in medical education: toward a medical aesthetics of resistance / Alan Bleakley -- 46. In defense of cheaper stethoscopes / Jay Baruch |
| Subject |
Philosophy, Medical
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Education, Medical
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Health Personnel -- education
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Humanities
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| Alt Author |
Jones, Therese, editor
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Wear, Delese, editor
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Friedman, Lester D., editor
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Pachucki, Kathleen, editor
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