| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 388 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Cambridge critical concepts |
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Cambridge critical concepts.
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| Contents |
Guts, hollows, and coils : inside stories in ancient literature / Chiara Thumiger -- Medieval affect, The Book of Magery Kempe, and medical treatments of the embodied self / Holly A. Crocker -- Epidemiological language in Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy / Jennifer Radden -- Illness and the novel aesthetics / Hosanna Krienke -- Embodies traumas in the twentieth and twenty-first century literature / Alan Gibbs -- Illness and the 'fall' of language / Steven Wilson -- Translating chronic pain and ethics of reading in the personal essay / Marie Allitt -- Physician-poets and vitalist theories of life / James Morland -- Healthcare anecdotes and the medically anecdotal / Brian Hurwitz -- Literary realism and mental breakdown / Josie Billington -- Time and narrative in the age of postnatural death : Maylis de Kerangal's The Heart / Jared Stark -- Performance and/as contagion in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic / Małgorzata Sugiera -- The parallel chart as medico-literary practice / Daniel Eison -- Articulating the experiential in graphic medicine / Kimberly R. Myers -- Malaria literature : (post)colonial perspectives, infection, and the question of mobility / Jessica Howell and Oishani Sengupta -- Forgotten class : French literature, medicine, and poverty / Loïc Bourdeau -- The human endeavor : bioethics and biocapitalism in Don DeLillo's Zero K / Justin Omar Johnston -- Re-framing and re-forming disability literature / Susannah B. Mintz -- Overcoming decline (in) narrative : episodicity in stories of dementia and ageing / Martina Zimmerman -- Literature as a form of care? : from therapeutic narratives to the literature of care / Alexandre Gefen -- Literature in collaboration : the work of literature in the critical medical humanities / Angel Woods and James Rákóczi -- Afterword : medicine and literature after COVID-19 / Anna M. Elsner and Monika Pietrzak-Franger |
| Summary |
"Literature and Medicine considers how these two dynamic fields have crossed over, and how they have developed alongside one another. It covers a broad spectrum of conceptual, thematic, theoretical, and methodological approaches that provide a solid foundation for understanding a vibrant interdisciplinary field"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 08, 2024) |
| Subject |
Literature and medicine.
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Medicine in literature.
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Health in literature.
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Health in literature
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Literature and medicine
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Medicine in literature
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Elsner, Anna Magdalena, 1982- editor.
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Pietrzak-Franger, Monika, editor.
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| LC no. |
2023029251 |
| ISBN |
9781009300070 |
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1009300075 |
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