Medical Humanities in American Studies - Life Writing, Narrative Medicine, and the Power of Autobiography

This book asks a seemingly simple question: How has the creation of new fields such as medical humanities and narrative medicine changed the humanities themselves, and American Studies more specifically? Turning to the genre of life writing, this study sets out to chart spaces in which a dialogue between the humanities and the life sciences can emerge. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, life writing narratives such as Tito Mukhopadhyay's 'Beyond the Silence', Temple Grandin's 'Thinking in Pictures', or Michael J. Fox's 'Lucky Man' show that self-description has often become inseparable from biomedical terminology. Linking life writing narratives to discussions in bioethics and exploring the links between autobiography and brain research, this book sets out to wonder whether the divide between the "two cultures" of the humanities and the life sciences may not itself have become obsolete.

Riassunto

This book asks a seemingly simple question: How has the creation of new fields such as medical humanities and narrative medicine changed the humanities themselves, and American Studies more specifically? Turning to the genre of life writing, this study sets out to chart spaces in which a dialogue between the humanities and the life sciences can emerge. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, life writing narratives such as Tito Mukhopadhyay’s ‘Beyond the Silence’, Temple Grandin’s ‘Thinking in Pictures’, or Michael J. Fox’s ‘Lucky Man’ show that self-description has often become inseparable from biomedical terminology. Linking life writing narratives to discussions in bioethics and exploring the links between autobiography and brain research, this book sets out to wonder whether the divide between the “two cultures” of the humanities and the life sciences may not itself have become obsolete.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Mita Banerjee
• Editore: Universitätsverlag Winter
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 26.07.2018
• EAN: 9783825369064
• ISBN: 978-3-8253-6906-4
• Pagine: 390
• Dimensioni: 141 mm x 215 mm x 27 mm
• Peso: 568 g
• Serie: American Studies / A Monograph Series; American Studies; American Studies / A Monograph Series; American Studies
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese; Trauma, Bioethik, Behinderung, Fox, Michael J., Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Darstellende Künste, Hirnforschung, Tanz, Medizin, allgemein, Parkinson, Humanwissenschaften, Autobiography, Life Writing, autobiographisches Schreiben, indigene Kultur, Literatur und Medizin, Medical Humanities, Adams, Rachel, Khan, Shah Rukh, Grandin, Temple, Mukhopadhyay, Tito, Baryshnikov, Mikhail, Horowitz, Adam