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ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF THE MEDICAL HUMANITIES This authoritative new handbook offers a comprehensive and cutting-edge overview of the state of the medical humanities globally, showing how clinically oriented medical humanities, the critical study of medicine as a global historical and cultural phenomenon, and medicine as a force for cultural change can inform each other. Composed of eight parts, the Routledge Handbook of the Medical Humanities looks at the medi- cal humanities as: • a network and system • therapeutic • provocation • forms of resistance • a way of reconceptualising the medical curriculum • concerned with performance and narrative • mediated by artists as diagnosticians of culture through public engagement. This book describes how the medical humanities can be used in and out of clinical settings, act- ing as a point of resistance, redistributing medicine’s capital amongst its stakeholders, embracing the complexity of medical instances, shaping medical education, promoting interdisciplinary understandings and recognising an identity for the medical humanities as a network effect. This book is an essential read for all students, scholars and practitioners with an interest in the medi- cal humanities. Alan Bleakley is Emeritus Professor of Medical Education and Medical Humanities at Plymouth University’s Peninsula School of Medicine, UK, and has been Visiting Scholar at the Wilson Centre, University of Toronto, Canada. He is immediate past president of the Association for Medical Humanities Council. ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF THE MEDICAL HUMANITIES Edited by Alan Bleakley First published 2020 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business 2020 selection and editorial matter, Alan Bleakley, individual chapters, the contributors The right of Alan Bleakley to be identified as the author of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. 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British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record has been requested for this book ISBN: 978-0-8153-7461-9 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-351-24177-9 (ebk) Typeset in Bembo by Swales & Willis Ltd, Exeter, Devon, UK CONTENTS List of contributors x Introduction: the medical humanities—a mixed weather front on a global scale 1 Alan Bleakley PART I Medical humanities as networks, systems and translations 29 1 A dose of empathy from my Syrian doctor 31 Randi Davenport 2 The cultural crossings of care: a call for translational medical humanities 34 Julia Kristeva, Marie Rose Moro, John Ødemark, and Eivind Engebretsen 3 Medical work in transition: towards collaborative and transformative expertise 41 Yrjö Engeström 4 Health, health care, and health education: problems, paradigms, and patterns 55 Stewart Mennin, Glenda Eoyang, and Mary Nations v Contents PART II Democratising medicine: the medical humanities as forms of resistance 73 5 The state of the union: rigour and responsibility in US health humanities 75 Therese Jones and Delese Wear 6 The cutting edge: health humanities for equity and social justice 83 Arno K. Kumagai and Thirusha Naidu 7 Geography as engaged medical-health-humanities 97 Courtney Donovan and Sarah de Leeuw 8 Challenging heteronormativity in medicine 105 William J. Robertson 9 Medical Nemesis 40 years on: the enduring legacy of Ivan Illich 114 Seamus O’Mahony 10 Hospitaland 123 Jefferson Wong PART III Medicine’s metaphors and rhetoric 127 11 Don’t breathe a word: a psychoanalysis of medicine’s inflations 129 Alan Bleakley 12 Metaphor as art: a thought experiment 136 Anita Wohlmann 13 The practice of metaphor 144 Shane Neilson 14 Medical slang: symptom or solution? 155 Nicole M. Piemonte 15 Ageism and rhetoric 163 Judy Z. Segal 16 The rhetorical possibilities of a multi-metaphorical view of clinical supervision 176 Lorelei Lingard and Mark Goldszmidt vi Contents 17 The chaotic narratives of anti-vaccination 185 Katherine Shwetz 18 Thought curfew: empathy’s endgame? 192 David Cotterrell PART IV Medicine as performance and public engagement 203 19 The performing arts in medicine and medical education 205 Claire Hooker and James Dalton 20 A manifesto for artists’ books and the medical humanities 220 Stella Bolaki 21 Grasping emergency care through pop culture: the truths and lies of film, television and other video-based media 234 Henry A. Curtis 22 Who is the audience for the medical/health humanities? 242 Suzy Willson, Pamela Brett-Maclean, and Bella Eacott 23 Desire imagination action: Theatre of the Oppressed in medical education 250 Ravi Ramaswamy and Radha Ramaswamy 24 Zombie sickness: contagious ideas in performance 257 Martin O’Brien and Gianna Bouchard 25 The masks of uncertainty 264 Cara Martin PART V Embodiment and disembodiment 267 26 Nobody’s home 269 Susan Bleakley 27 Ecstasy 272 Alphonso Lingis 28 Relationships that matter: embodying absent kinships in the Japanese child welfare system 282 Kathryn E. Goldfarb vii Contents 29 Still Alice? Ethical aspects of conceptualising selfhood in dementia 290 Lisa Folkmarson Käll and Kristin Zeiler 30 Body Maps: reframing embodied experiences through ethnography and art 300 Cari Costanzo 31 Perspectives on olfaction in medical culture 309 Crispian Neill PART VI The medical humanities in medical education 319 32 The ‘awe-full’ fascination of pathology 321 Quentin Eichbaum, Leonard White, Gwinyai Masukume, and Gil Pena 33 Biomedical ethics and the medical humanities: sensing the aesthetic 332 Paul Macneill 34 Medical humanities online: experiences from South Africa 344 Steve Reid and Susan Levine 35 ‘Your effort was great/you carried me nine months’: the birth of medical humanities in Ethiopia 354 Part I: ‘your effort was great’ 354 Ian Fussell Part II: spices and hard questions 359 Robert Marshall 36 Medical humanities in Canadian medical schools: progress, challenges and opportunities 364 Allan Peterkin, Natalie Beausoleil, Monica Kidd, Bahar Orang, Hesam Noroozi and Pamela Brett-Maclean PART VII The patient will see you now 381 37 Can we make empathy more intelligent? Try social empathy! 383 Caroline Wellbery 38 A letter from Marijke Boucherie to Alan Bleakley 393 Marijke Boucherie viii Contents 39 Health humanities: a democratising future beyond medical humanities 401 Paul Crawford and Brian Brown 40 Doctors need safe confessional and cathartic spaces: what we learned from the research project ‘People Talking: Digital Dialogues for Mutual Recovery’ 410 Jon Allard, Michael Wilson and Alan Bleakley 41 All thanks to the words of a stranger: an homage to the UK’s National Health Service 419 Sophie Holloway PART VIII Overview: celebrating the flaw in the Persian rug 423 42 Negotiating research in the medical humanities 425 Maria Athina (Tina) Martimianakis, Cynthia R. Whitehead and Ayelet Kuper Index 436 ix
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