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Illness and Image - Case Studies in the Medical Humanities (Paperback)
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Illness and Image - Case Studies in the Medical Humanities (Paperback)
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The humanities in higher education are too often labeled as
impractical and are not usually valued in today's marketplace. Yet
in professional fields, such as the health sciences, interest in
what the humanities can offer has increased. Advocates claim the
humanities offer health care professionals greater insight into how
to work with those who need their help. Illness and Image
introduces undergraduates and professionals to the medical
humanities, using a series of case studies, beginning with debates
about male circumcision from the ancient world to the present, to
the meanings of authenticity in the face transplantation arena. The
case studies address the interpretation of mental illness as a
disability and the "new" category of mental illness, "self-harm."
Sander L. Gilman shows how medicine projects such categories'
existence into the historical past to show that they are not bound
in time and space and, therefore, are "real." Illness and Image
provides students and researchers with models and possible
questions regarding categories often assumed to be either
trans-historical or objective, making it useful as a textbook.
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