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Medicine, Health and Being Human (Paperback)
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Medicine, Health and Being Human (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities
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Medicine, Health and Being Human begins a conversation to explore
how the medical has defined us: that is, the ways in which
perspectives of medicine and health have affected cultural
understandings of what it means to be human. With chapters that
span from the early modern period through to the contemporary
world, and are drawn from a range of disciplines, this volume holds
that incremental historical and cultural influences have brought
about an understanding of humanity in which the medical is
ingrained, consciously or unconsciously, usually as a mode of
legitimisation. Divided into three parts, the book follows a
narrative path from the integrity of the human soul, through to the
integrity of the material human body, then finally brought together
through engaging with end-of-life responses. Part 1 examines the
move from spirituality to psychiatry in terms of the way medical
science has influenced cultural understandings of the mind. Part 2
interrogates the role that medicine has played in the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries in constructing and deconstructing the self
and other, including the fusion of visual objectivity and the
scientific gaze in constructing perceptions of humanity. Part 3
looks at the limits of medicine when the integrity of one body
breaks down. It contends with the ultimate question of the extent
to which humanity is confined within the integrity of the human
body, and how medicine and the humanities work together toward
responding to the finality of death. This is a valuable
contribution for all those interested in the medical humanities,
history of medicine, history of ideas and the social approaches to
health and illness.
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