Medicine and Empathy in Contemporary British Fiction : An Intervention in Medical Humanities /
Whitehead, Anne
Medicine and Empathy in Contemporary British Fiction : An Intervention in Medical Humanities / Anne Whitehead. - 1 online resource (224 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Empathy and Mind -- 2 Empathy and Ethics -- 3 Empathy and Interdisciplinarity -- 4 Empathy and the Geopolitical -- 5 Empathy and Capitalism -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Offers a new understanding of empathy and its relation to medicine and literature, as a critical intervention into the medical humanitiesThis book marks a critical intervention in the medical humanities that takes issue with its understanding of empathy as something that one has. Drawing on phenomenology and feminist affect theory, it positions empathy as something that one does and that is embedded within structural, institutional, and cultural relations of power. More than this, it questions the assumption that empathy is limited to the clinical relation, thinking about medicine as more broadly defined. Combining theoretical argument with literary case studies of books by Mark Haddon, Pat Barker, Ian McEwan, Aminatta Forna and Kazuo Ishiguro, this book also contends that contemporary fiction is not a vehicle for accessing another’s illness experience, but is itself engaging critically with the question of empathy and its limits.Key FeaturesProvides a strong conceptual underpinning for the notion of empathy, drawing on phenomenology and feminist affect theoryRelates the idea of empathy not only to the clinical relation but also to medicine more broadly definedRepositions literature’s role in the medical humanities from a vehicle to access patient experience to a strategic intervention into current debates on empathy and its effects
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780748686186 9780748686193
10.1515/9780748686193 doi
2017297032
Empathy in literature.
English fiction--History and criticism.--21st century
English literature--History and criticism.--21st century
English literature--History and criticism.--Great Britain
Medicine in literature.
Psychology in literature.
Literary Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
PR890.E46 / W45 2017
823.9209353
Medicine and Empathy in Contemporary British Fiction : An Intervention in Medical Humanities / Anne Whitehead. - 1 online resource (224 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Empathy and Mind -- 2 Empathy and Ethics -- 3 Empathy and Interdisciplinarity -- 4 Empathy and the Geopolitical -- 5 Empathy and Capitalism -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Offers a new understanding of empathy and its relation to medicine and literature, as a critical intervention into the medical humanitiesThis book marks a critical intervention in the medical humanities that takes issue with its understanding of empathy as something that one has. Drawing on phenomenology and feminist affect theory, it positions empathy as something that one does and that is embedded within structural, institutional, and cultural relations of power. More than this, it questions the assumption that empathy is limited to the clinical relation, thinking about medicine as more broadly defined. Combining theoretical argument with literary case studies of books by Mark Haddon, Pat Barker, Ian McEwan, Aminatta Forna and Kazuo Ishiguro, this book also contends that contemporary fiction is not a vehicle for accessing another’s illness experience, but is itself engaging critically with the question of empathy and its limits.Key FeaturesProvides a strong conceptual underpinning for the notion of empathy, drawing on phenomenology and feminist affect theoryRelates the idea of empathy not only to the clinical relation but also to medicine more broadly definedRepositions literature’s role in the medical humanities from a vehicle to access patient experience to a strategic intervention into current debates on empathy and its effects
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780748686186 9780748686193
10.1515/9780748686193 doi
2017297032
Empathy in literature.
English fiction--History and criticism.--21st century
English literature--History and criticism.--21st century
English literature--History and criticism.--Great Britain
Medicine in literature.
Psychology in literature.
Literary Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
PR890.E46 / W45 2017
823.9209353