Embodiment and Critical Medical Humanities: Multiple Practices and Shifting Concepts (Medical Humanities - Open Forum, 1) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3796551246 ISBN 13: 9783796551246

Publisher: Schwabe Verlag, 2024

Synopsis

How can we consider "the body" and "bodies" in all their individuality? How can the value of individual experiences, of affects and sensual structures, of embodiment in medical contexts be taken into account? How can the hidden strategies of normalization be addressed with the aim of achieving a more just perspective? These are some of the central questions and concerns of this book. It questions medical humanities as a truly interdisciplinary field in which the traditional oppositions of biomedicine's explainable physical body and the humanities' hermeneutic dimensions might be critically challenged: In a series of in-depth conversations with the editors of this volume, Angela Woods, Erin Manning, Monica Greco, Ana Gomez-Carrillo, and Siri Hustvedt discuss their completed, ongoing, and future interdisciplinary projects; their still-unwritten books-to-come; their non-academic research designs and experimental research spaces; and their embodied thinking and teaching practices.

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About the Author

Cornelius Borck, Director of the Institute for History of Medicine and Science Studies (IMGWF), University of Lubeck. Ana Gomez-Carrillo, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal. Monica Greco, Professor of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London. Siri Hustvedt, writer, lecturer in psychiatry at Weil Cornell Medical College in New York. Celine Kaiser, Professor for Media cultural studies and Scenic research, University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Ottersberg and co-director of IMHAR Institute for Medical & Health Humanities and Artistic Research. Erin Manning, Professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. She is also the founder of the laboratory SenseLab. Christina Schues, Professor of Philosophy at the Institute for History of Medicine and Science Studies (IMGWF), University of Lubeck. Sophie Witt, Professor at the Institute for Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Hamburg; Visiting Scholar at the IMGWF in 2021. Angela Woods, Professor of Medical Humanities in the Department of English Studies, Durham University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Schwabe Verlag
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3796551246
• ISBN 13: 9783796551246
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 140
• Editor: Witt Sophie, Kaiser Celine, Schues Christina, Borck Cornelius