03094namaa2200613uu 4500 doab37885 oapen 20260305123948.0 m o d cr|mn|---annan 210210s2016 xx |||||o ||| 0|eng d 9781474414555 OAPEN_613682 10.26530/OAPEN_613682 doi oapen oapen eng dc H bicssc J bicssc M bicssc MB bicssc MBS bicssc Richards, Jennifer aut The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities Edinburgh University Press 2016 1 online resource (700 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Free-to-read Unrestricted online access star 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 introduce comprehensively 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. Topics covered in this volume include: the affective body, biomedicine, blindness, breath, disability, early modern medical practice, fatness, the genome, language, madness, narrative, race, systems biology, performance, the postcolonial, public health, touch, twins, voice and wonder. Together the chapters generate a body of new knowledge and make a decisive intervention into how health, medicine and clinical care might address questions of individual, subjective and embodied experience. All rights reserved http://oapen.org/content/about-rights English Humanities bicssc Medical sociology bicssc Medicine: general issues bicssc Medicine bicssc Society & social sciences bicssc affect body evidence experimentation imagination medical humanities mind Atkinson, Sarah aut Macnaughton, Jane aut Whitehead, Anne edt Whitehead, Anne oth Woods, Angela edt Woods, Angela oth DOAB Library. https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/37885 0 Free-to-read: DOAB: description of the publication 92850 92850