Routledge Handbook of the Medical Humanities

<p>This 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.</p><p>Composed of eight parts the <i>Routledge Handbook of the Medical Humanities </i>looks at the medical humanities as:</p><ul> <li>a network and system</li> <li>therapeutic</li> <li>provocation</li> <li>forms of resistance</li> <li>a way of reconceptualising the medical curriculum</li> <li>concerned with performance and narrative</li> <li>mediated by artists as diagnosticians of culture through public engagement.</li> </ul><p>This book describes how the medical humanities can be used in and out of clinical settings acting as a point of resistance redistributing medicine’s capital amongst its stakeholders embracing the complexity of medical instances shaping medical education promoting interdisciplinary understandings and recognising an identity for the medical humanities as a network effect. This book is an essential read for all students scholars and practitioners with an interest in the medical humanities.</p>