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Medicine and Empathy in Contemporary British Fiction
A Critical Intervention in Medical Humanities
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Edinburgh University Press Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: 6KQPWR8
EAN: 9781474452410
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Beschreibung
Offers a new understanding of empathy and its relation to medicine and literature, as a critical intervention into the medical humanities This 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 Features Provides a strong conceptual underpinning for the notion of empathy, drawing on phenomenology and feminist affect theory Relates the idea of empathy not only to the clinical relation but also to medicine more broadly defined Repositions 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
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Anne Whitehead
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2019
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 224