Charting shared advances across the emerging fields of medical
humanities and health humanities, this book engages with the
question of how biomedical knowledge is constructed, negotiated,
and circulated as a cultural practice. The volume is composed of a
series of pathbreaking inter-disciplinary essays that bring
sociocultural habits of mind and modes of thought to the study of
medicine, health and patients. These juxtapositions create new
forms of knowledge, while emphasizing the vulnerability of human
bodies, anti-essentialist approaches to biology, a sensitivity to
language and rhetoric, and an attention to social justice. These
essays dissect the ways that cultural practices define the limits
of health and the body: from the body's place and trajectory in the
world to how bodies relate to one another, from questions about
ageing and sex to what counts as health and illness. Considering
how these and other concepts are shaped by a negotiation between
medico-scientific knowledge and ways of knowing derived from other
domains, this book provides important new insights into how
biomedical frameworks become settled forms for broader cultural
understanding.
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