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Medical Humanities and the Place of Wonder

Evans, H.M.

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Authors

H.M. Evans



Contributors

A. Whitehead
Editor

A. Woods
Editor

Abstract

It will be the argument of this chapter that, among the critiques that could be thought to contribute to a critical medical humanities, at least one may turn out to bear upon an important – but generally tacit – presumption in mainstream medical humanities. The presumption in question is that, taking our materiality and embodiment for granted, medical humanities’ principal task is to return the patient’s voice to prominence within the clinical encounter. The particular critique I have in mind involves disputing this very taken-for-granted-ness of our embodiment, and cautioning against replacing medicine’s neglect of the personal with medical humanities’ neglect of...

Citation

Evans, H. (2016). Medical Humanities and the Place of Wonder. In A. Whitehead, & A. Woods (Eds.), The Edinburgh companion to the critical medical humanities (339-355). Edinburgh University Press

Acceptance Date Dec 14, 2015
Online Publication Date Jun 1, 2016
Publication Date Jun 1, 2016
Deposit Date Jun 4, 2017
Publicly Available Date Jun 1, 2019
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Pages 339-355
Series Title Edinburgh companions
Book Title The Edinburgh companion to the critical medical humanities.
Chapter Number 19
ISBN 9781474400046
Publisher URL https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edinburgh-companion-to-the-critical-medical-humanities.html

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