Medicine and Empathy in Contemporary British Fiction

Anne Whitehead is Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Newcastle University, UK. She is the author of Trauma Fiction (Edinburgh, 2004) and Memory: New Critical Idiom (Routledge, 2009). She has co-edited The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities (Edinburgh, 2016), Theories of Memory: A Reader (Edinburgh, 2007) and W. G. Sebald: A Critical Companion (Edinburgh, 2004), as well as a special issue of Feminist Theory on feminism and affect. She has published articles on contemporary literature in a range of journals, including Modern Fiction Studies, Textual Practice, and Contemporary Literature.

Groundbreaking work

• Introduction 51. Empathy and Mind 372. Empathy and Ethics 793. Empathy and Interdisciplinarity 1214. Empathy and the Geopolitical 1635. Empathy and Capitalism 202Conclusion