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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Lesa Scholl (Emmanuel College, University of Queensland, Australia)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9781138301184ISBN 10: 1138301183 Pages: 276 Publication Date: 31 May 2018 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education , Undergraduate Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Situating the soul, self, and mind 1. Physicians and the soul: Medicine and spirituality in seventeenth-century England Michelle Pfeffer 2. Hearing differently: Medical, modern and medieval approaches to sound Bonnie Millar 3. Sensing the self in the wandering mind Hazel Morrison 4. Soul searching: Psychiatry’s influence on selfhood Patrick Seniuk Part 2: Ethnographic constructions of self and society through medicine 5. Evidence-based medicine, the placebo effect, and performativity in healing Hannah Lesshafft 6. Voices in medicine: Bad news, good news Jennifer Greenwood 7. From Blumenbach to population genetics: A genealogy of the five races in the life sciences Jordan Liz Part 3: Realism and images in medical science 8. Defining the human with photographic precision: Medical objectivity and artistic realism Corinna Wagner 9. Scientific humanism in missionary photography Prue Ahrens 10. Medical imaging’s intrusive gaze Catherine Jenkins Part 4: Monsters, markets, and chimeras 11. Wonders and monsters: Negotiating medical-triggered redefinitions of humanity through popular fiction in the nineteenth century and today Anna Gasperini 12. Law, medicine, and monsters in Alasdair Gray’s Poor Things and Hilary Mantel’s The Giant, O’Brien Kathryn Bird 13. Imagining a kidney market: Transplantation, Prometheus and the monster’s bride Stephen M Young 14. The narratives of plastic surgery reality shows in South Korea: The patient’s success story, the surgeon as creator, and the permeability of expert knowledge Carmen Voinea Part 5: Medicine and humanity toward the end 15. My lawful wife and mistress Uzo Dibia 16. In Lady Delacour’s shadow: Women patients and breast cancer in short fiction April Patrick 17. The death of sympathy in Great War literature M. Renee Benham 18. A humanistic perspective on the curative power of language at the end of life: Restoration of the self through words and silence Andrea Rodrígez-Prat and Xavier EscribanoReviewsAuthor InformationLesa Scholl teaches in the School of Communication and Arts, University of Queensland, Australia. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |