Culture and Medicine : Critical Readings in the Health and Medical Humanities

Bloomsbury Academic
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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.


  • | Author: Rishi Goyal, Arden Hegele
  • | Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
  • | Publication Date: Jul 25, 2024
  • | Number of Pages: NA pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Paperback
  • | ISBN-10: 1350248657
  • | ISBN-13: 9781350248656
Author:
Rishi Goyal, Arden Hegele
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
Publication Date:
Jul 25, 2024
Number of pages:
NA pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1350248657
ISBN-13:
9781350248656