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Health Humanities Reader by Arthur W. Frank (2014, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherRutgers University Press
ISBN-100813562465
ISBN-139780813562469
eBay Product ID (ePID)176127322
Product Key Features
Number of Pages416 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameHealth Humanities Reader
Publication Year2014
SubjectEducation & Training, Health Care Issues, General, Teaching Methods & Materials / Health & Sexuality, Disease & Health Issues
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaSocial Science, Health & Fitness, Education, Medical
AuthorArthur W. Frank
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight39.6 Oz
Item Length10 in
Item Width7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2013-021942
ReviewsThis bold, intelligent, and vitally comprehensive collection is a truly interdisciplinary achievement and an indispensible resource.Through twelve judiciously selected thematic clusters, Rutgers's Health Humanities Reader consolidates this new subfield by capturing both the complexity and excitement of health humanities scholarship. An essential tool with practical applications both inside and outside the classroom., It's about time! The field of medical humanities has been waiting for a reader, and this one is it. With an excellent array of essays in appropriate topics by top people in the field, this book should set the standard for the next ten years. It will prove fascinating to undergraduates, graduate students in both the humanities and the health sciences, and to the general public and particularly those who are or will be patients--which of course is everyone., [This book] consists of nearly 50 chapters, some of which deal with classic medical humanities topics, such as the notions of health and disease and the theory of the body. The majority of the book centers on more contemporary--some would say postmodern--issues, such as gender and sexuality, disability, and aging. Recommended., This bold, intelligent, and vitally comprehensive collection is a truly interdisciplinary achievement and an indispensible resource.Through twelve judiciously selected thematic clusters, Rutgers's Health Humanities Reader consolidates this new subfield by capturing both the complexity and excitement of health humanities scholarship. An essential tool with practical applications both inside and outside the classroom., This is a landmark volume that sets the standard for any future collection in medical/health humanities. It is by turns authoritative, funny, edgy, creative and personal--sometimes all in one piece.
Dewey Edition23
Grade FromCollege Freshman
IllustratedYes
Grade ToCollege Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal362.101
Table Of ContentPART I: DISEASE AND ILLNESS Chapter 1 Being a Good Story: The Humanities as Therapeutic Practice Chapter 2 Illuminating the It, Thee, and We of Disease and Illness:The Metamorphosis and Related Works Chapter 3 "This Weird, Incurable Disease": Competing Diagnoses in the Rhetoric of Morgellons Chapter 4 My Quest for Health PART II: DISABILITY Chapter 5 Disability in Two Doctor Stories Chapter 6 Music and Disability Chapter 7 American Narrative Films and Disability: An Uneasy History Chapter 8 Standout PART III: DEATH AND DYING Chapter 9 When the Doctor Is Not God: The Impact of Religion on Medical Decision-Making at the End of Life Chapter 10 Postmodern Death and Dying: A Literary Analysis Chapter 11 Second-Degree Block: Poem and Commentary PART IV PATIENT-PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIPS Chapter 12 Social Studies: The Humanities, Narrative, and the Social Context of the Patient-Professional Relationship Chapter 13 Humanities and the Medical Home Chapter 14 Occupational Medicine PART V: THE BODY Chapter 15 The Virtues of the Imperfect Body Chapter 16 Seeing Bodies in Pain Chapter 17 Public Fetuses Chapter 18 More Body: A Performance for Five (or More) Bodies PART VI: GENDER AND SEXUALITY Chapter 19 Adult Intake Form Chapter 20 What Is Sex For? or, The Many Uses of the Vag Chapter 21 "I Always Prefer the Scissors": Isaac Baker Brown and Feminist Histories of Medicine Chapter 22 Comics in the Health Humanities: A New Approach to Sex and Gender Education Chapter 23 I Am Gula, Hear Me Roar PART VII: RACE AND CLASS Chapter 24 Listening as Freedom: Narrative, Health, and Social Justice Chapter 25 Race and Mental Health Chapter 26 Law's Hand in Race, Class, and Health Inequities: On the Humanities and the Social Determinants of Health Chapter 27 Dark Rooms of Our Souls PART VIII: AGING Chapter 28 "Old Age Isn't a Battle, It's a Massacre": Reading Philip Roth's Everyman Chapter 29 "Do You Remember Me?": Construction of Alzheimer's Disease in Literature and Film Chapter 30 Love in the Time of Dementia PART IX MENTAL ILLNESS Chapter 31 Narrating Our Sadness, with a Little Help from Humanities Chapter 32 Teaching Narratives of Mental Illness Chapter 33 Community Psychiatry and the Medical Humanities Chapter 34 Culpability PART X SPIRITUALITY AND RELIGION Chapter 35 Rites of Bioethics Chapter 36 Health and Humanities: Spirituality and Religion Chapter 37 Scientia Mortis and the ArsMoriendi: To the Memory of Norman Chapter 38 Meditations of an Anesthesiologist: Poem and Commentary PART XI: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Chapter 39 Andromeda's Futures: A Story of Humanities, Technology, Science, and Art Chapter 40 Knowing and Seeing: Reconstructing Frankenstein Chapter 41 A Brief History of Love: A Rationale for the History of Epidemics Chapter 42 Calcedonies PART XII HEALTH PROFESSIONS EDUCATION Chapter 43 Teaching Autism through Naturalized Narrative Ethics: Closing the Divide between Bioethics and Medical Humanities Chapter 44 Courting Discomfort in an Undergraduate Health Humanities Classroom Chapter 45 The Medical Humanities in Medical Education: Toward a Medical Aesthetics of Resistance Chapter 46 In Defense of Cheaper Stethoscopes
SynopsisIn this definitive new collection, fifty-four leading scholars come together to survey the vital work being done in the health humanities. Reflecting the extraordinary diversity of this burgeoning field, it brings together nurses and philosophers, scientists and historians, to discuss everything from mental illness to doctor-patient relationships. Including forty six original essays organized around twelve topics, Health Humanities Reader is written in an accessible style that presents serious issues with warmth and humor., Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire medical practitioners to engage in deeper reflection about the human elements of their practice. In Health Humanities Reader , editors Therese Jones, Delese Wear, and Lester D. Friedman have assembled fifty-four leading scholars, educators, artists, and clinicians to survey the rich body of work that has already emerged from the field?and to imagine fresh approaches to the health humanities in these original essays. The collection?s contributors reflect the extraordinary diversity of the field, including scholars from the disciplines of disability studies, history, literature, nursing, religion, narrative medicine, philosophy, bioethics, medicine, and the social sciences. With warmth and humor, critical acumen and ethical insight, Health Humanities Reader truly humanizes the field of medicine. Its accessible language and broad scope offers something for everyone from the experienced medical professional to a reader interested in health and illness., Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire medical practitioners to engage in deeper reflection about the human elements of their practice. In Health Humanities Reader , editors Therese Jones, Delese Wear, and Lester D. Friedman have assembled fifty-four leading scholars, educators, artists, and clinicians to survey the rich body of work that has already emerged from the field--and to imagine fresh approaches to the health humanities in these original essays. The collection's contributors reflect the extraordinary diversity of the field, including scholars from the disciplines of disability studies, history, literature, nursing, religion, narrative medicine, philosophy, bioethics, medicine, and the social sciences. With warmth and humor, critical acumen and ethical insight, Health Humanities Reader truly humanizes the field of medicine. Its accessible language and broad scope offers something for everyone from the experienced medical professional to a reader interested in health and illness.
LC Classification NumberRA418
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