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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460298103321

Titolo

Creative dialogues : narrative and medicine / / edited by Isabel Fernandes [and three others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4438-7892-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Disciplina

809.933561

Soggetti

Diseases in literature

Narrative medicine

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; ON CLINICAL HISTORY; CONFRONTING THE OTHER; VENATIO, VEXATIO AND THE SUBDUCTION OF MEANING IN MEDICINE; THE THIRD CULTURE; PART II; CAN YOU DIE FROM NOT BEING LISTENED TO?; NARRATIVE MEDICINE; LESSONS FROM A BRAIN DISEASE; SELVES, HOLDING THEIR OWN WITH ILLNESS; DISSONANCE AND DECISION; PART III; REPRESENTATIONS OF ILLNESS IN CONTEMPORARY SHORT FICTION; WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE AND THE REPRESENTATION OF FEMALE MADNESS; POETICS OF TRAUMA; DON'T LOOK BACK; FICTION AS HEALING; MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN; PART IV

VARIATIONS IN SUFFERING ACCORDING TO DIFFERENT CONTEXTUAL PRESSURES AFFECTING THE BODY AND TRANSFORMING DESIRE; THE NARRATIVE OF THE MAN WHO SUFFERS; PART V; BEING-IN-STORIES; ON THE LIMITS OF KNOWING SUFFERING AND PAIN; SCREAMS, SHOUTS AND SILENCES; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This volume is the outcome of work done in the groundbreaking field of Narrative Medicine by an interdisciplinary research team based at the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (ULICES) and devoted to



the international project Narrative and Medicine since 2009. The articles and essays gathered here, heterogeneous as they may be (such is the natural outcome of research carried out across disciplines), are not only of high caliber when read individually, but also constitute an inval...