Health Humanities Reader

THERESE JONES is an associate professor at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities and director of the Arts and Humanities in Healthcare Program at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. She is the editor of the Journal of Medical Humanities, and her extensive publications include Sharing the Delirium: Second Generation AIDS Plays and Performances.DELESE WEAR is a professor of behavioral and community health sciences at Northeast Ohio Medical University. She has written and edited numerous books, including Educating for Professionalism: Creating a Culture of Humanism in Medical Education. LESTER D. FRIEDMAN is chair of media and society at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. A leading scholar on media representations of medicine, he is the editor of Cultural Sutures: Medicine and Media and co-editor of Picture of Health: Medical Ethics and the Movies.

"This bold, intelligent, and vitally comprehensive collection is a truly interdisciplinary achievement and an indispensible resource.Through twelve judiciously selected thematic clusters, Rutgers's Health Humanities Reader consolidates this new subfield by capturing both the complexity and excitement of health humanities scholarship.  An essential tool with practical applications both inside and outside the classroom."— Andrea Charise, PhD, assistant professor of health studies, University of Toronto, Scarborough"It's about time! The field of medical humanities has been waiting for a reader, and this one is it. With an excellent array of essays in appropriate topics by top people in the field, this book should set the standard for the next ten years. It will prove fascinating to undergraduates, graduate students in both the humanities and the health sciences, and to the general public and particularly those who are or will be patients—which of course is everyone." — Lennard J. Davis, editor of The Disability Studies Reader"[This book] consists of nearly 50 chapters, some of which deal with classic medical humanities topics, such as the notions of health and disease and the theory of the body. The majority of the book centers on more contemporary—some would say postmodern—issues, such as gender and sexuality, disability, and aging. Recommended."— Choice"This is a landmark volume that sets the standard for any future collection in medical/health humanities. It is by turns authoritative, funny, edgy, creative and personal—sometimes all in one piece."— Thomas R. Cole, Director, McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics, University of Texas-Houston Medical School

• PART I: DISEASE AND ILLNESSChapter 1 Being a Good Story: The Humanities as Therapeutic PracticeChapter 2 Illuminating the It, Thee, and We of Disease and Illness:The Metamorphosis and Related WorksChapter 3 "This Weird, Incurable Disease": Competing Diagnoses in the Rhetoric of MorgellonsChapter 4 My Quest for HealthPART II: DISABILITYChapter 5 Disability in Two Doctor StoriesChapter 6 Music and DisabilityChapter 7 American Narrative Films and Disability: An Uneasy HistoryChapter 8 StandoutPART III: DEATH AND DYINGChapter 9 When the Doctor Is Not God: The Impact of Religion on Medical Decision-Making at the End of LifeChapter 10 Postmodern Death and Dying: A Literary AnalysisChapter 11 Second-Degree Block: Poem and CommentaryPART IV PATIENT-PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIPS Chapter 12 Social Studies: The Humanities, Narrative, and the Social Context of the Patient-Professional RelationshipChapter 13 Humanities and the Medical HomeChapter 14 Occupational MedicinePART V: THE BODYChapter 15 The Virtues of the Imperfect BodyChapter 16 Seeing Bodies in PainChapter 17 Public FetusesChapter 18 More Body: A Performance for Five (or More) BodiesPART VI:  GENDER AND SEXUALITY Chapter 19 Adult Intake FormChapter 20 What Is Sex For? or, The Many Uses of the VagChapter 21 "I Always Prefer the Scissors": Isaac Baker Brown and Feminist Histories of MedicineChapter 22 Comics in the Health Humanities: A New Approach to Sex and Gender EducationChapter 23 I Am Gula, Hear Me RoarPART VII: RACE AND CLASSChapter 24 Listening as Freedom: Narrative, Health, and Social JusticeChapter 25 Race and Mental HealthChapter 26 Law's Hand in Race, Class, and Health Inequities: On the Humanities and the Social Determinants of HealthChapter 27 Dark Rooms of Our SoulsPART VIII: AGINGChapter 28 "Old Age Isn't a Battle, It's a Massacre": Reading Philip Roth's EverymanChapter 29 "Do You Remember Me?": Construction of Alzheimer's Disease in Literature and FilmChapter 30 Love in the Time of DementiaPART IX MENTAL ILLNESSChapter 31 Narrating Our Sadness, with a Little Help from HumanitiesChapter 32 Teaching Narratives of Mental IllnessChapter 33 Community Psychiatry and the Medical HumanitiesChapter 34 CulpabilityPART X SPIRITUALITY AND RELIGIONChapter 35 Rites of BioethicsChapter 36 Health and Humanities: Spirituality and ReligionChapter 37 Scientia Mortis and the ArsMoriendi: To the Memory of NormanChapter 38 Meditations of an Anesthesiologist: Poem and CommentaryPART XI: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYChapter 39 Andromeda's Futures: A Story of Humanities, Technology, Science, and ArtChapter 40 Knowing and Seeing: Reconstructing FrankensteinChapter 41 A Brief History of Love: A Rationale for the History of EpidemicsChapter 42 CalcedoniesPART XII HEALTH PROFESSIONS EDUCATIONChapter 43 Teaching Autism through Naturalized Narrative Ethics: Closing the Divide between Bioethics and Medical HumanitiesChapter 44 Courting Discomfort in an Undergraduate Health Humanities ClassroomChapter 45 The Medical Humanities in Medical Education: Toward a Medical Aesthetics of ResistanceChapter 46 In Defense of Cheaper Stethoscopes