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New Directions in Literature and Medicine Studies Edited by Stephanie M. Hilger New Directions in Literature and Medicine Studies Stephanie M. Hilger Editor New Directions in Literature and Medicine Studies Editor Stephanie M. Hilger University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, USA ISBN 978-1-137-51987-0 ISBN 978-1-137-51988-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-51988-7 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017948700 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 The author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identified as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This work is subject to copyright. 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The participants presented work on different topics, yet they shared the objective of creating a dialogue between the fields of literature and medicine and, more broadly, between the humanities and the sciences. This discussion has existed since the incep- tion of the field of literature and medicine in the seventies, yet it has had its ebbs and flows throughout the decades. Recently, the necessity of this dia- logue has resurfaced in the face of ever-shrinking resources and the abolition of many of the institutional spaces for the exchange of ideas between human- ists and scientists. The present volume presents the research by scholars keen on maintaining and enlivening that dialogue. Although it gathers expanded versions of some of the conference presentations, this volume is not a confer- ence proceedings. Other prominent scholars in the field were invited to con- tribute their current research, papers on specific topics were commissioned, and some of the participants submitted different research than what they presented at the conference seminars. As readers will see, the chapters in this volume engage in dialogue not only with different disciplines but also with each other. For that reason, they are grouped in thematic clusters that are rel- evant for understanding both the separation of the disciplines and the ways to reconnect them. This type of project would not have been possible without the support of the two institutions with which I was affiliated as I worked on this project. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, my permanent institutional home, and New York University Abu Dhabi, where I held a visiting profes- sorship from Fall 2013 to Fall 2014, both generously supported my travel to vii viii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the above-mentioned conferences and provided logistical and financial sup- port for work on the volume. Thank you to my colleagues at these institu- tions who acted as a sounding board for my ideas and research. Thank you also to my friends near and far—you know who you are—who provided encouragement and support in many forms: intellectual, social, emotional, and culinary. Thank you also to the contributors to this volume, whose work inspired me, and to the editors at Palgrave, who believed in this project and shared invaluable feedback at crucial points. And, finally, thank you to the two most important people in my life, my husband and my daughter, who was born while this volume was in the works; they always know how to make me laugh. And, as the saying goes, laughter is the best medicine. c ontents Introduction: Bridging the Divide Between Literature and Medicine 1 Stephanie M. Hilger Part I History and Pedagogy Reading and Writing One’s Way to Wellness: The History of Bibliotherapy and Scriptotherapy 15 Janella D. Moy Why Teach Literature and Medicine? Answers from Three Decades 31 Anne Hudson Jones Intellectual Cosmopolitanism as Stewardship in Medical Humanities and Undergraduate Writing Pedagogy 49 Lisa M. DeTora Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Teaching an Interdisciplinary Course on “A Cultural and Evolutionary History of Sexuality” But Were Afraid to Ask 71 Jennifer Wynne Hellwarth and Ronald L. Mumme Medical Professionalism: Using Literary Narrative to Explore and Evaluate Medical Professionalism 99 Casey Hester, Jerry B. Vannatta and Ronald Schleifer ix x CONTENTS Part II Body and Mind Mind, Breath, and Voice in Chaucer’s Romance Writing 119 Corinne Saunders Affect and the Organs in the Anatomical Poems of Paul Celan: Encountering Medical Discourse 143 Vasiliki Dimoula Reading the DSM-5 Through Literature: The Value of Subjective Knowing 165 Christine Marks Anecdotal Evidence: What Patient Poets Provide 181 Marilyn McEntyre “L’Œil Gauche Barré:” Migraine, Scotoma, and Allied Disorders in Emile Zola’s Novels 203 Janice Zehentbauer Part III Physical and Cultural Alterity Corporeal Abnormality as Intellectual and Cultural Capital: Jean Fernel’s Pathologiae Libri, Ambroise Paré’s Des Monstres et Prodiges, and Michel de Montaigne’s Essais 223 Yuri Kondratiev The Primacy of Touch: Helen Keller’s Embodiment of Language 243 Sun Jai Kim Unsound Elegy: Breast Cancer in The Dying Animal by Philip Roth and Elegy by Isabel Coixet 253 Federica Frediani Reading Colonial Dis-ease/Disease in Hong Kong Modernist Fiction 267 C.T. Au Anandibai Joshi’s Passage to America (and More): The Making of a Hindu Lady Doctor 281 Sandhya Shetty CONTENTS xi The Introduction of Moxibustion and Acupuncture in Europe from the Early Modern Period to the Nineteenth Century 305 Giovanni Borriello Part IV Professionalization of Medicine Midwives and Spin Doctors: The Rhetoric of Authority in Early Modern French Medicine 319 Ophélie Chavaroche The Changing Face of Quack Doctors: Satirizing Mountebanks and Physicians in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century England 333 Genice Ngg Medical Tourism in Victorian Edinburgh: Writing Narratives of Healthy Citizenship 357 Martin Willis Doctor-Writers: Anton Chekhov’s Medical Stories 377 Carl Fisher Mikhail Berman-Tsikinovsky’s Medical Plays: Chekhov in Chicago 397 Maria Pia Pagani Index 411
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