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.
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