Introduction to medical humanities : medicine and the Italian artistic heritage / / Renzo Pegoraro, Luciana Caenazzo and Lucia Mariani, editors

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910616379603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022]; ©2022
• ISBN: 3-031-04919-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (192 pages)
• Disciplina: 610
• Soggetti: Arts medicine; Bioethics; Arts - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-187) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Introduction -- A Course in Medical Humanities in Padua -- Medical Humanities -- The Book -- Contents -- Chapter 1: The Medical Humanities -- 1 ``Humanitas´´ and Its Variants: A Family of Meanings -- ``Humanization´´? No Thanks! -- Applying Medicine in the Wake of Humanism -- Medicine as a ``Humanitarian´´ Activity -- Humanity/Inhumanity: When Medicine Is Result-Oriented -- Health Practitioners´ ``Humanity´´ -- 2 The ``Medical Humanities´´ in Practice -- The Integration of the ``Two Cultures´´ -- From the Culture of Rights to the ``Empowerment´´ of the Citizen -- Beyond ``Bellettristic´´: The Arts as Interlocutors -- References -- Chapter 2: Clinical Ethics in the Context of Medical Humanities -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Crisis in Medicine and in Bioethics -- 3 Medical Humanities and the Concept of Acknowledgment -- 4 Clinical Ethics Consultation: A Possible Common Point -- 5 What Kind of Specific Training? An Italian Experience -- 6 Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Perspectives on ``Mediterranean Bioethics´´ -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Why a ``Mediterranean Bioethics´´? -- 3 The Future Perspective on ``Mediterranean Bioethics´´ -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Medical Liability: Two Historical Cases from Padua -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Case I: The Doctor-Patient Relationship between ``Ethics´´ and ``Cunning´´ ; - Gabriele Zerbi -- 3 Case II: The Cynical Doctor - Alessandro Knips Macoppe -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 5: Medical Issues in Italian Frescoes -- 1 Introduction -- How Can We Use Italian Frescoes in Medical Humanities? -- 2 (Medical) Humanity Through Italian Frescoes -- 3 Anatomical Knowledge and Italian Frescoes -- 4 Medical Diagnosis Through Italian Frescoes -- 5 Disability Through Italian Frescoes -- 6 Epidemics Through Italian Frescoes -- Bibliography.; Chapter 6: The Sculpted Body: Interferences Between Beauty and Anatomy -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Body Representations: The Experience of the Sacred -- 3 Anatomical Knowledge: Dissection and Relics -- 4 The Drawing -- 5 Michelangelo´s Legacy -- 6 Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Middle Ages -- Renaissance -- Image and Emotion -- Chapter 7: Clinical Narratives: Stories and Ethics in Healthcare -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Narratives and Metaphors of Health and Disease, Illness, and Care -- 3 Between Medicine Based on Scientific Evidence and Medicine That Listens to Stories: The Return of the Humanities in Clinical... -- 4 Stories Between Moral Imagination and Narrative Identity -- 5 Stories of Patients and Carers -- 6 For a Phenomenology of Illness -- 7 Care Among Moral Life, Existential Dynamics, and Institutional Realities -- References -- Chapter 8: Viral Pandemics and the Advent of Neo-Renaissance: A Lacanian Reading of Dan Brown´s Inferno -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Plot Summary -- 3 Conceptual Framework and Design: The Four Discourses -- 4 First ``Therapy´´: Awakening the Unworldly Expert (the Mutual Exposure of Past and Present) -- 5 Second ``Therapy´´: A Craving Prodigy and the Matheme of Desire -- 6 Third ``Therapy´´: Bertrand Zobrist - Psychopath or Therapist? -- 7 Fourth ``Therapy´´: The Policy of Denial -- 8 Resume: Inferno´s Basic Structure in Terms of the Four Discourses -- 9 The Object a as ``Actor´´ -- 10 Implications for Virology -- Bibliography -- Chapter 9: Psychic Life and Things: Architecture, Urbanism, and Pan-Diadromous -- 1 Signs and Signals in the Surroundings -- 2 Landscape and Temple -- 3 Prosthetic Objects: Contemplation and Construction -- 4 Psychiatry and Places of ``Madness´´ -- 5 Architecture and Urban Planning for the Psychic Life.; 6 Objects, Clothing, Transportation, and Design: Prostheses of Psychic Life with the Emergence of Connectomical Objects -- 7 Toward Connectomical Landscapes -- 8 The Connectomical Architecture -- Bibliography -- Chapter 10: A Narrative Shift for Clinical Bioethics: The Role of Cinema -- 1 Crisis -- 2 Shift -- 3 Risks -- Bibliography -- Chapter 11: The Hunter Gracchus: A Franz Kafka Story of Death´s Dehumanization -- References -- Chapter 12: Why Not Dream? Murano: Glass and Spirit -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A Bit of History -- 3 Writing Poetry on Glass -- 4 Transforming Emotions into a Glasswork -- 5 Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index.