Explorations in the Medical Humanities: New Books in the Health Humanities

30 March, 2019
http://heymancenter.org/events/explorations-in-the-medical-humanities-2019-a-workshop-at-columbia-universi/

Sasha Turner (Quinnipiac U), Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing and Slavery in Jamaica (2017)

Deirdre Cooper Owens (CUNY, Queens College), Medical Bondage: Race, Gender and the Origins of American Gynecology (2017)

Respondents: Christopher Florio (SoF/Heyman) & Cristobal Silva (English and Comparative Literature)
Chair: Arden Hegele (SoF/Heyman)​

As a set of disciplines, the humanities face the challenge of how to write about embodied experiences that resist easy verbal categorization such as illness, pain, and healing. The recent emergence of interdisciplinary frameworks such as narrative medicine has offered a set of methodological approaches to address these challenges. Conceptualizing a field of medical humanities provides a broad umbrella under which to study the influence of medico-scientific ideas and practices on society. Whether by incorporating material culture such as medical artefacts, performing symptomatic readings of poems and novels, or excavating the implicit medical assumptions underlying auditory cultures, the approaches that emerge from a historiographical or interpretive framework are different from those coming from the physician’s black bag.

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#Medical_Humanities #Health_Humanities #Pregnancy #Jamaica #Medical_Bondage #Gynecology #Race #Gender #columbia_university

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