Medicine and Empathy in Contemporary British Fiction

A Critical Intervention in Medical Humanities

AvAnne Whitehead,Anne Whitehead

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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This book marks a critical intervention in the medical humanities that takes issue with its understanding of empathy as something that one has.

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Utgivningsdatum:2017-10-19
Mått:156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt:460 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9780748686186

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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.

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