The Medical Imagination
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The Medical Imagination
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Author : Sari Altschuler
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2018-03-20
The Medical Imagination written by Sari Altschuler and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Medical Imagination traces the practice of using imagination and literature to craft, test, and implement theories of health in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America. This history of imaginative experimentation provides a usable past for conversations about the role of the humanities in health research and practice today.
John Keats And The Medical Imagination
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Author : Nicholas Roe
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-12-06
John Keats And The Medical Imagination written by Nicholas Roe and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book presents ten new chapters on John Keats's medical imagination, beginning with his practical engagement with dissection and surgery, and the extraordinary poems he wrote during his 'busy time' at Guy's Hospital 1815-17. The Physical Society at Guy's and the demands of a medical career are explored, as are the lyrical spheres of botany, melancholia, and Keats's strange oxymoronic poetics of suspended animation. Here too are links between surveillance of patients at Bedlam and of inner city streets that were walked by the poet of 'To Autumn'. The book concludes with a survey of multiple romantic pathologies of that most Keatsian of diseases, pulmonary tuberculosis.
The Caribbean And The Medical Imagination 1764 1834
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Author : Emily Senior
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-04-26
The Caribbean And The Medical Imagination 1764 1834 written by Emily Senior and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
Significant study of colonial Caribbean literatures in the context of the high rates of disease and death in the region.
Romantic Medicine And The Gothic Imagination
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Author : Laura R. Kremmel
language : en
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Release Date : 2022-04-01
Romantic Medicine And The Gothic Imagination written by Laura R. Kremmel and has been published by University of Wales Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book debates a crossover between the Gothic and the medical imagination in the Romantic period. It explores the gore and uncertainty typical of medical experimentation, and expands the possibilities of medical theories in a speculative space by a focus on Gothic novels, short stories, poetry, drama and chapbooks. By comparing the Gothic’s collection of unsavoury tropes to morbid anatomy’s collection of diseased organs, the author argues that the Gothic’s prioritisation of fear and gore gives it access to nonnormative bodies, reallocating medical and narrative agency to bodies considered otherwise powerless. Each chapter pairs a trope with a critical medical debate, granting silenced bodies power over their own narratives: the reanimated corpse confronts fears about vitalism; the skeleton exposes fears about pain; the unreliable corpse feeds on fears of dissection; the devil redirects fears about disability; the dangerous narrative manipulates fears of contagion and vaccination.
Encounters Of A Medical Imagination
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Author : Ralph Crawshaw
language : en
Publisher: Trafford on Demand Pub
Release Date : 2008-01
Encounters Of A Medical Imagination written by Ralph Crawshaw and has been published by Trafford on Demand Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01 with Fiction categories.
Readers of Encounters of a Medical Imagination accompany the author in his imagined medical consultations with celebrities; heroes and villains of our day-to-day life. The encounters will surprise the reader with the spontaneous and direct styles of John Lennon, Oscar Wilde, Eleanor Roosevelt, Niccolò Machiavelli and Anton Chekhov, among others. Acting more as friends rather than the famous, they considerer questions and offer opinions that speak to both the reader's mind and heart. Consequently, the reader is drawn into the lively camaraderie that so often accompanies the search for a wiser and stronger way of life. These fables should enliven the liveliest of imaginations.
Debility And The Moral Imagination In Botswana
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Author : Julie Livingston
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2005-10-20
Debility And The Moral Imagination In Botswana written by Julie Livingston and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-20 with History categories.
In the rush to development in Botswana, and Africa more generally, changes in work, diet, and medical care have resulted in escalating experiences of chronic illness, debilitating disease, and accident. Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana documents how transformations wrought by colonialism, independence, industrialization, and development have effected changes in bodily life and perceptions of health, illness, and debility. In this intimate and powerful book, Julie Livingston explores the lives of debilitated persons, their caregivers, the medical and social networks of caring, and methods that communities have adopted for promoting well-being. Livingston traces how Tswana medical thought and practice have become intertwined with Western bio-medical ideas and techniques. By focusing on experiences and meanings of illness and bodily misfortune, Livingston sheds light on the complexities of the current HIV/AIDS epidemic and places it in context with a long and complex history of impairment and debility. This book presents practical and thoughtful responses to physical misfortune and offers an understanding of the complex dynamic between social change and suffering.
Coleridge On Dreaming
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Author : Jennifer Ford
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1998
Coleridge On Dreaming written by Jennifer Ford and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book is the first in-depth investigation of Coleridge's responses to his dreams and to contemporary debates on the nature of dreaming, a subject of perennial interest to poets, philosophers and scientists throughout the Romantic period. Coleridge wrote and read extensively on the subject, but his richly diverse and original ideas have hitherto received little attention, scattered as they are throughout his notebooks, letters and marginalia. Jennifer Ford's emphasis is on analysing the ways in which dreaming processes were construed, by Coleridge in his dream readings, and by his contemporaries in a range of poetic and medical works. This historical exploration of dreams and dreaming allows Ford to explore previously neglected contemporary debates on 'the medical imagination'. By avoiding purely biographical or psychoanalytic approaches, she reveals instead a rich historical context for the ways in which the most mysterious workings of the Romantic imagination were explored and understood.
Speaking Of Epidemics In Chinese Medicine
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Author : Marta Hanson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-03-29
Speaking Of Epidemics In Chinese Medicine written by Marta Hanson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-29 with History categories.
"This book is the biography of a Chinese disease. Born in antiquity and reaching maturity during the epidemics that swept China during the seventeenth-century collapse of the Ming dynasty, the ancient notion of wenbing Warm diseases continued to play a role even in the response of Traditional Chinese Medicine to the outbreak of SARS in 2002-3. By following wenbing from its birth to maturity and even life in modern times this book approaches the history of Chinese medicine from a new angle. It explores the possibility of replacing older narratives that stress progress and linear development with accounts that pay attention to geographic, intellectual, and cultural diversity. By doing so it integrates the history of Chinese medicine into broader historical studies in a way that has not so far been attempted, and addresses the concerns of a readership much wider than that of Chinese medicine specialists"--Provided by publisher.
Plague Image And Imagination From Medieval To Modern Times
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Author : Christos Lynteris
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-07-29
Plague Image And Imagination From Medieval To Modern Times written by Christos Lynteris and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-29 with Science categories.
This edited collection brings together new research by world-leading historians and anthropologists to examine the interaction between images of plague in different temporal and spatial contexts, and the imagination of the disease from the Middle Ages to today. The chapters in this book illuminate to what extent the image of plague has not simply reflected, but also impacted the way in which the disease is experienced in different historical periods. The book asks what is the contribution of the entanglement between epidemic image and imagination to the persistence of plague as a category of human suffering across so many centuries, in spite of profound shifts in our medical understanding of the disease. What is it that makes plague such a visually charismatic subject? And why is the medical, religious and lay imagination of plague so consistently determined by the visual register? In answering these questions, this volume takes the study of plague images beyond its usual, art-historical framework, so as to examine them and their relation to the imagination of plague from medical, historical, visual anthropological, and postcolonial perspectives.
The Medical Imagination
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Author : Grant Duncan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
The Medical Imagination written by Grant Duncan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Alternative medicine categories.