Health Humanities Reader

By: Professor Therese Jones and Professor Delese Wear and Professor Lester D. Friedman and Mark Vonnegut and Arthur W. Frank and David H. Flood and Rhonda L. Soricelli and Lisa Keränen and Michael Sappol and Shelley Wall and Martha Stoddard Holmes and Joseph N. Straus and Martin F. Norden and Professor Lisa I. Iezzoni and Felicia Cohn and Martha Montello and John Lantos and Amy Haddad and Rebecca Garden and Mark Clark and Howard Brody and Rebecca Hester and Jack Coulehan and Rosemarie Tong and Sander L. Gilman and Professor Bernice Hausman and Gretchen A. Case and Allen Peterkin and Alice Dreger and Marjorie Levine-Clark and Susan M. Squier and Rafael Campo and Sayantani DasGupta and Jonathan M. Metzl and Daniel Goldberg and Maren Grainger-Monsen and Thomas R. Cole and Benjamin Saxton and E. Ann Kaplan and Jerald Winakur and Bradley Lewis and Anne Hudson Jones and Michael Rowe and Ian Williams and Tod Chambers and Raymond C. Barfield and Lucy Selman and Jeffrey P. Bishop and Audrey Shafer and Catherine Belling and Paul Root Wolpe and Professor Allison B. Kavey and Jeff Nisker and Julie M. Aultman and Michael Blackie and Erin Gentry Lamb and Alan Bleakley and Jay Baruch

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Synopsis: Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire medical practitioners to engage in deeper reflection about the human elements of their practice.In Health Humanities Reader, editors Therese Jones, Delese Wear, and Lester D. Friedman have assembled fifty-four leading scholars, educators, artists, and clinicians to survey the rich body of work that has already emerged from the field—and to imagine fresh approaches to the health humanities in these original essays. The collection’s contributors reflect the extraordinary diversity of the field, including scholars from the disciplines of disability studies, history, literature, nursing, religion, narrative medicine, philosophy, bioethics, medicine, and the social sciences. With warmth and humor, critical acumen and ethical insight, Health Humanities Reader truly humanizes the field of medicine. Its accessible language and broad scope offers something for everyone from the experienced medical professional to a reader interested in health and illness.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9780813573670
Related ISBNs:: 9780813562469
Publisher:: Rutgers University Press
Date of Addition:: 01/22/18
Copyrighted By:: Rutgers University Press
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Health, Mind and Body, Education, Social Studies, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Medicine, Philosophy
Grade Levels:: College Freshman, College Sophomore, College Junior, College Senior, Graduate Student, Undergraduate Student
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.