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Medicine and Empathy in Contemporary British Fiction : An Intervention in Medical Humanities / Anne Whitehead.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780748686186
  • 9780748686193
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823.9209353 23
LOC classification:
  • PR890.E46 W45 2017
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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

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

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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.

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