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100	1		_aRichards, Jennifer, _eauthor
245		4	_aThe Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities
264			_bEdinburgh University Press _c2016
300			_a1 online resource (700 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
520			_aIn this landmark Companion, expert contributors from around the world map out the field of the critical medical humanities. This is the first volume to introduce comprehensively the ways in which interdisciplinary thinking across the humanities and social sciences might contribute to, critique and develop medical understanding of the human individually and collectively. The thirty-six newly commissioned chapters range widely within and across disciplinary fields, always alert to the intersections between medicine, as broadly defined, and critical thinking. Each chapter offers suggestions for further reading on the issues raised, and each section concludes with an Afterword, written by a leading critic, outlining future possibilities for cutting-edge work in this area. Topics covered in this volume include: the affective body, biomedicine, blindness, breath, disability, early modern medical practice, fatness, the genome, language, madness, narrative, race, systems biology, performance, the postcolonial, public health, touch, twins, voice and wonder. Together the chapters generate a body of new knowledge and make a decisive intervention into how health, medicine and clinical care might address questions of individual, subjective and embodied experience.
653			_aAffect
653			_aBody
653			_aExperimentation
653			_aMedical Humanities
653			_aMind
700	1		_aWhitehead, Anne
700	1		_aWoods, Angela
700	1		_aAtkinson, Sarah
700	1		_aMacnaughton, Jane
856			_uhttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32164
942			_cE-BOOK
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