Medicine, Health and Being Human

Lesa Scholl teaches in the School of Communication and Arts, University of Queensland, Australia.

• Introduction Part 1: Situating the soul, self, and mind 1. Physicians and the soul: Medicine and spirituality in seventeenth-century England Michelle Pfeffer 2. Hearing differently: Medical, modern and medieval approaches to sound Bonnie Millar 3. Sensing the self in the wandering mind Hazel Morrison 4. Soul searching: Psychiatry’s influence on selfhood Patrick Seniuk Part 2: Ethnographic constructions of self and society through medicine 5. Evidence-based medicine, the placebo effect, and performativity in healing Hannah Lesshafft 6. Voices in medicine: Bad news, good news Jennifer Greenwood 7. From Blumenbach to population genetics: A genealogy of the five races in the life sciences Jordan Liz Part 3: Realism and images in medical science 8. Defining the human with photographic precision: Medical objectivity and artistic realism Corinna Wagner 9. Scientific humanism in missionary photography Prue Ahrens 10. Medical imaging’s intrusive gaze Catherine Jenkins Part 4: Monsters, markets, and chimeras 11. Wonders and monsters: Negotiating medical-triggered redefinitions of humanity through popular fiction in the nineteenth century and today Anna Gasperini 12. Law, medicine, and monsters in Alasdair Gray’s Poor Things and Hilary Mantel’s The Giant, O’Brien Kathryn Bird 13. Imagining a kidney market: Transplantation, Prometheus and the monster’s bride Stephen M Young 14. The narratives of plastic surgery reality shows in South Korea: The patient’s success story, the surgeon as creator, and the permeability of expert knowledge Carmen Voinea Part 5: Medicine and humanity toward the end 15. My lawful wife and mistress Uzo Dibia 16. In Lady Delacour’s shadow: Women patients and breast cancer in short fiction April Patrick 17. The death of sympathy in Great War literature M. Renee Benham 18. A humanistic perspective on the curative power of language at the end of life: Restoration of the self through words and silence Andrea Rodrígez-Prat and Xavier Escribano