Body Talk in the Medical Humanities - Whose Language? (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)

This exciting book draws on the insight and experience of 21 medical practitioners and researchers in the wider field of the medical humanities to ask fundamental questions related to illness, bodily experience, the experience and role of medical and healthcare professionals, and the contribution of language and communication to enable understanding. It opens up a range of conversations, reflections and research to present an innovative approach to the field of body studies, investigating complex questions that are associated with self and body and medical and healthcare professionals who work with bodies that are ill. Areas of pain, disability, vulnerability, life experienced through chronic conditions and the insights of listening to the ill and the dying are examined within the individual contributions. The chapters explore a range of key spaces, gaps and tensions between talk and bodies, from embodied experiences and patient-doctor relationships to negotiating institutional constraints and reading, looking and enacting as methods of improving intersubjective, relational and ethical practices.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2019
Editors:	Jennifer Patterson • Francia Kinchington
Dimensions:	212 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover - With dust jacket
Pages:	340
Edition:	Unabridged edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-5275-3473-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General Books > Medicine > General issues > Health systems & services > General practice
LSN:	1-5275-3473-1
Barcode:	9781527534735

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