Routledge Handbook of the Medical Humanities by Bleakley Alan - 9780815374619

Taylor & Francis

Routledge Handbook of the Medical HumanitiesAuthor(s): Bleakley Alan\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Inc, United States\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780815374619, 978-0815374619\nSynopsis\nThis 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.\n\nComposed of eight parts, the Routledge Handbook of the Medical Humanities looks at the medical humanities as:\n\na network and system\ntherapeutic\nprovocation\nforms of resistance\na way of reconceptualising the medical curriculum\nconcerned with performance and narrative\nmediated by artists as diagnosticians of culture through public engagement.\n\nThis book describes how the medical humanities can be used in and out of clinical settings, acting as a.