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Routledge Handbook of the Medical Humanities
Contributor(s): Alan, Bleakley (Editor)
ISBN: 0815374615     ISBN-13: 9780815374619
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $266.00  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: August 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Medical | Physician & Patient
- Social Science | Disease & Health Issues
- Medical | Education & Training
Physical Information: 444 pages
 
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This authoritative new handbook offers a comprehensive and cutting-edge overview of the state of the medical humanities globally, showing how clinically oriented medical humanities, the critical study of medicine as a global historical and cultural phenomenon, and medicine as a force for cultural change can inform each other.

Composed of eight parts, the Routledge Handbook of the Medical Humanities looks at the medical humanities as:

  • a network and system
  • therapeutic
  • provocation
  • forms of resistance
  • a way of reconceptualising the medical curriculum
  • concerned with performance and narrative
  • mediated by artists as diagnosticians of culture through public engagement.

This book describes how the medical humanities can be used in and out of clinical settings, acting as a point of resistance, redistributing medicine's capital amongst its stakeholders, embracing the complexity of medical instances, shaping medical education, promoting interdisciplinary understandings and recognising an identity for the medical humanities as a network effect. This book is an essential read for all students, scholars and practitioners with an interest in the medical humanities.