Gender is an exciting area of current research in the medical
humanities, and by combining the study of medical narratives with
theories of gender and sexuality, the essays in Gender Scripts in
Medicine and Narrative illustrate the power of gender stereotypes
to shape the way medicine is practiced and perceived. The chapters
of Gender Scripts in Medicine and Narrative investigate gendered
perceptions and representations of healers and patients in fiction,
memoir, popular literature, poetry, film, television, the history
of science, new media, and visual art. The fourteen chapters of
Gender Scripts in Medicine and Narrative are organized into four
cohesive sections. These chapters investigate the impact of gender
stereotypes on medical narratives from a variety of points of view,
considering narratives from diverse languages, time periods,
genres, and media. Each section addresses some of the most pressing
and provocative issues in theories of gender and the medical
humanities: I. Gendering the Medical Gaze and Pathology; II.
Monitoring Race through Reproduction; III. Rescripting Trauma and
Healing; and IV. Medical Masculinities.Along with these sections,
Gender Scripts Medicine and Narrative features a preface by Rita
Charon, MD, PhD, Director and Founder, The Program in Narrative
Medicine, Columbia University, a foreword by Marcelline Block, and
an introduction by Angela Laflen. This collection takes a truly
interdisciplinary look at the topic of gender and medicine, and the
impressive group of contributors to the anthology represent a wide
range of academic fields of inquiry, including medical humanities,
bioethics, English, modern languages, women's studies, film theory,
postcolonial theory, art history, the history of science and
medicine, new media studies, theories of trauma, among others. This
approach of crossing boundaries of genre and discipline makes the
volume accessible to scholars who are concerned with narrative,
gender, and/or medical ethics.Click here for a recent review of
this title.
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