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The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities

Anne Whitehead editor Jennifer Richards editor Jane Macnaughton editor Sarah Atkinson editor Angela Woods editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Edinburgh University Press

Published:20th Jun '16

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Original critical engagements at the intersection of the biomedical sciences, arts, humanities and social sciences
In this landmark Companion, expert contributors from around the world map out the field of the critical medical humanities. This is the first volume to comprehensively introduce the ways in which interdisciplinary thinking across the humanities and social sciences might contribute to, critique and develop medical understanding of the human individually and collectively. The thirty-six newly commissioned chapters range widely within and across disciplinary fields, always alert to the intersections between medicine, as broadly defined, and critical thinking. Each chapter offers suggestions for further reading on the issues raised, and each section concludes with an Afterword, written by a leading critic, outlining future possibilities for cutting-edge work in this area.
Key Features
Offers an introduction to the second wave of the field of the medical humanitiesPositions the humanities not as additive to medicine but as making a decisive intervention into how health, medicine and clinical care might think about individual, subjective and embodied experienceExemplifies the commitment of the critical medical humanities to genuinely interdisciplinary thinking by stimulating multi-disciplinary dialogue around key areas of debate within the fieldPresents thirty-six original chapters from leading and emergent scholars in the field, who are defining its new critical edge

ISBN: 9781474400046

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 1345g

700 pages