Rethinking Medical Humanities: A Perspective from the Arts and the Social Sciences

436 Pages·2022·6.027 MB·English

by  Rinaldo F. Canalis, Massimo Ciavolella, Valeria Finucci

RethinkingMedicalHumanities
Medical Traditions
Edited by
Alain Touwaide
Scientific Committee
Michael Friedrich, Jost Gippert, Marilena Maniaci,
Paolo Odorico, Steve M. Oberhelman,
Dominik Wujasty
Volume 7
Rethinking
Medical
Humanities
Perspectives from the Arts and the Social Sciences
Edited by
Rinaldo F. Canalis, Massimo Ciavolella
and Valeria Finucci
Postface by Alain Touwaide
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Acknowledgments
RethinkingMedicalHumanitieswouldnothavebeenbroughtintocompletionwith-
outthegenerousassistanceofProfessorAlainTouwaide,whoseguidanceandpro-
fessional help permeates every structural element of the volume. Many thanks are
alsoduetoLeeWalcottandtheAhmansonFoundationfortheircontinuoussupport
of the academic activities in the field of Medical Humanities at UCLA, particularly
those related to the Renaissance and Medieval periods. Lastly, but certainly not
last, much gratitude is due to Nina Bjekcovic for her meticulous correlation of the
book`stextsandreferences.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110788501-202

Contents
Acknowledgments VII
ListofFigures XIII
ListofContributors XVII
Introduction: SettinguptheTerms
RinaldoF.Canalis,MassimoCiavolellaandValeriaFinucci
RethinkingMedicalHumanities 3
PhilosophyandEthicalQueries
DonaldBeecher
PonderingthePerimeters:TowardsaDefinitionofMedicalHumanism 17
MariacarlaGadebuschBondio
AvoidableMistakes–PremodernMedicalFallibilityasanEthicalProblem
withEpistemologicalImplications 35
JenniferKosmin
WhentheFetusBecomesaChild:SomeReflectionsfromtheLongEighteenth
Century 51
ManuelaGallerani
EthicalResponsibilitiesintheCuring/CaringRelationship 71
Halingor Hale:TheBodyinthe ArtsandLiterature
StephenC.Meredith
DiseaseandtheProblemofEvilintheNovelsofThomasMann 97
PabloMaurette
MonstrosityandtheMonstrousRevisited:FortunioLiceti’sMedical
Imagination 137
X Contents
RobertaBallestriero
TheFleshofWax:TheUseofScientificCollectioninMedicalHumanities 157
AriellaMindenandPaoloSavoia
TheBodybetweenLifeandDeath:BerengariodaCarpiandtheAnatomical
ImageoftheSixteenthCentury 173
JorgeA.Lazareff
TheAnatomyLessonofDr.JanDeijmanandtheSocialHistoryofthe
Brain 205
Secretsof theDead
ValeriaFinucci
TheBio-TurninHistoryWriting:Death,LastWishes,andLastingWishes 213
RinaldoF.Canalis
TheFatalDiseaseoftheLastReigningInca:AHistoricalandClinical
Study 227
FrancescoMariaGalassi,GiovanniSpaniandElenaVarotto
PaleopathologyandAnthropologyoftheRenaissance:FromtheMorbus
DominorumtotheAlleged‘Michelangelo’sShoes’ 253
Reason, AffectsandMadness
RemoBodei†
TheNewWorldOpenedbyMadness 263
SowonS.Park
WhyListentotheMad?WhatSchizophrenicGirlOfferstoNarrative
Medicine 277
MassimoCiavolella
TheMaladyofLoveinEarlyModernMedicalThought 293