Michelle Chiang is Assistant Professor of English at Nanyang Technological University where she coordinates the Medical Humanities Research Cluster and co-leads the Medical Humanities Curriculum Workgroup at Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine. She is the author of Beckett’s Intuitive Spectator: Me to Play (2018) and her work has appeared in The Lancet, Qualitative Health Research and the Journal of Medical Humanities.

Chiang’s study is a sophisticated and important intervention in care ethics and medical humanities, harnessing literary aesthetics in a new way. The case it makes for dynamic imagination as a key component of care is compelling, and the way it reconceives the idea of ‘mothering’ no less distinctive or persuasive. A book that will challenge and engage.

• AcknowledgementsSeries Editor's PrefaceMothering Care and the Imagination: An Introduction1. J. M. Coetzee’s Slow Man and the Imaginative Labour of Mothering Care2. 'It’s not my fault': Responsibility to the Other in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child3. Norms, Expectations and the Limit of Other-Centred Care in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian4. Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun and the Centrality of Critical Reflexivity in Mothering CareConclusion: Mothering Care for the FutureReferencesIndex

Michelle Chiang is Assistant Professor of English at Nanyang Technological University where she coordinates the Medical Humanities Research Cluster and co-leads the Medical Humanities Curriculum Workgroup at Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine. She is the author of Beckett’s Intuitive Spectator: Me to Play (2018) and her work has appeared in The Lancet, Qualitative Health Research and the Journal of Medical Humanities.

Chiang’s study is a sophisticated and important intervention in care ethics and medical humanities, harnessing literary aesthetics in a new way. The case it makes for dynamic imagination as a key component of care is compelling, and the way it reconceives the idea of ‘mothering’ no less distinctive or persuasive. A book that will challenge and engage.

• AcknowledgementsSeries Editor's PrefaceMothering Care and the Imagination: An Introduction1. J. M. Coetzee’s Slow Man and the Imaginative Labour of Mothering Care2. 'It’s not my fault': Responsibility to the Other in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child3. Norms, Expectations and the Limit of Other-Centred Care in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian4. Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun and the Centrality of Critical Reflexivity in Mothering CareConclusion: Mothering Care for the FutureReferencesIndex

Michelle Chiang is Assistant Professor of English at Nanyang Technological University where she coordinates the Medical Humanities Research Cluster and co-leads the Medical Humanities Curriculum Workgroup at Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine. She is the author of Beckett’s Intuitive Spectator: Me to Play (2018) and her work has appeared in The Lancet, Qualitative Health Research and the Journal of Medical Humanities.

Chiang’s study is a sophisticated and important intervention in care ethics and medical humanities, harnessing literary aesthetics in a new way. The case it makes for dynamic imagination as a key component of care is compelling, and the way it reconceives the idea of ‘mothering’ no less distinctive or persuasive. A book that will challenge and engage.

• AcknowledgementsSeries Editor's PrefaceMothering Care and the Imagination: An Introduction1. J. M. Coetzee’s Slow Man and the Imaginative Labour of Mothering Care2. 'It’s not my fault': Responsibility to the Other in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child3. Norms, Expectations and the Limit of Other-Centred Care in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian4. Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun and the Centrality of Critical Reflexivity in Mothering CareConclusion: Mothering Care for the FutureReferencesIndex