TY - BOOK AU - Whitehead,Anne TI - Medicine and Empathy in Contemporary British Fiction: An Intervention in Medical Humanities SN - 9780748686186 AV - PR890.E46 W45 2017 U1 - 823.9209353 23 PY - 2022///] CY - Edinburgh : PB - Edinburgh University Press, KW - Empathy in literature KW - English fiction KW - 21st century KW - History and criticism KW - English literature KW - Great Britain KW - Medicine in literature KW - Psychology in literature KW - Literary Studies KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / General KW - bisacsh N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748686193?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748686193 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780748686193/original ER -