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Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2020. 492 pp. Hardback, $280.00. <p>Ever since 2010, when Paul Crawford and colleagues first suggested expanding the purview of medical humanities to include healing practices beyond medicine and carers along with doctors, health humanities has continued to develop as an interdisciplinary field encompassing a variety of approaches and theoretical standpoints.<sup>1</sup> Envisaging a continuation of that perspective, <em>The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities</em> is a meticulous and descriptive collection of articles ranging across theory and praxis that emerge from a wide range of academic interests, practical improvement, and patient requirements, \"engaging with the contributions of those <em>marginalized</em> from the medical humanities.\"<sup>2</sup> The marginalized include patients, their families, non-physician healthcare professionals, educators, and even social workers—those who are often found affected, associated, and subordinated by the institutions of biomedicine. The intellectual and discursive presence of these voices inherently and holistically critiques biomedical notions of self-sufficiency. The collection also embodies the \"co-created,\" \"co-operative,\" and colearning vision of the field for thinking about arts and humanities in healthcare, as opposed to the privileging of intellectual autonomy over non-medical or <em>lived</em> knowledge seen in medical humanities (6). This implies a non-hierarchical and collaborative approach to finding solutions to health-related issues, while changing and problematizing the boundaries of what can be identified and treated as exclusively biomedical problems.</p> <p>In the past, Crawford and colleagues insisted on a more inclusive understanding of health humanities. This collection features that same insistence, but is oriented more towards the results of that inclusion: an array of recent innovations in the field. Reflecting this crucial distinction, the book has been divided into two parts. The first twenty-seven chapters critically assess medicine and healthcare via methodologies <strong>[End Page 236]</strong> from disciplines of the humanities. The first section also acknowledges and addresses the intersectional realities of providing and receiving health (and social) care in conjunction with race, indigeneity, ethnicity, and geographical divisions. This systematic inclusion corresponds to the \"interdisciplinary, inclusive, applied, democratizing and activist approach\" favored by health humanities as a field (3). Using the entanglements of humanities to interrogate biomedicine—and taking into consideration the other, less recognized stakeholders in care—these early chapters also establish health humanities as theoretically well grounded. For instance, the first chapter on genealogies of care borrows theoretical support from Foucault to understand the idea of recovery, which might otherwise seem to be monolithic and rooted in biomedicine. The second section consists of chapters that are comparatively compact and detail the applications engendered at the interdisciplinary points of contact among various academic disciplines, creative practices, and the systems of healing and well-being. The section division resembles the attunement of the field to the collaboration between theory and practice. Allowing an intensive view into the diversity of theoretical backgrounds and methodologies available in health humanities, this division embodies the applied-ness of the field, showing the interdependence of theory and praxis. In this way, the collection addresses the critique that the field lacks uniformity, deeming this a necessary sacrifice for inclusion. For example, Peter Meineck's chapters, \"Post Conflict Resolution and the Health Humanities: The Warrior Chorus Program\" and its applied counterpart, \"Classics,\" both explore the same activist concept of supporting the veterans of wars through dramatic classics. The former discusses the background, methodology, and objectives of the program. The latter chapter expands on the practical side of the program, detailing its individual and community impact. It also highlights consequent public engagement and academic output within and beyond the veteran community. It will not be an overstatement to say that the section division systematically introduces readers to different ways of practicing health humanities.</p> <p>The introduction by Crawford chronologically follows the shift to health humanities from what he considers the more restrictive scholarship of the domain of medical humanities. The introduction provides a remarkably useful preamble for beginners and experts alike. 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The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities ed. by Paul Crawford, Brian Brown, and Andrea Charise
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Paul Crawford, Brian Brown, and Andrea Charise, eds. The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2020. 492 pp. Hardback, $280.00.
Ever since 2010, when Paul Crawford and colleagues first suggested expanding the purview of medical humanities to include healing practices beyond medicine and carers along with doctors, health humanities has continued to develop as an interdisciplinary field encompassing a variety of approaches and theoretical standpoints.1 Envisaging a continuation of that perspective, The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities is a meticulous and descriptive collection of articles ranging across theory and praxis that emerge from a wide range of academic interests, practical improvement, and patient requirements, "engaging with the contributions of those marginalized from the medical humanities."2 The marginalized include patients, their families, non-physician healthcare professionals, educators, and even social workers—those who are often found affected, associated, and subordinated by the institutions of biomedicine. The intellectual and discursive presence of these voices inherently and holistically critiques biomedical notions of self-sufficiency. The collection also embodies the "co-created," "co-operative," and colearning vision of the field for thinking about arts and humanities in healthcare, as opposed to the privileging of intellectual autonomy over non-medical or lived knowledge seen in medical humanities (6). This implies a non-hierarchical and collaborative approach to finding solutions to health-related issues, while changing and problematizing the boundaries of what can be identified and treated as exclusively biomedical problems.
In the past, Crawford and colleagues insisted on a more inclusive understanding of health humanities. This collection features that same insistence, but is oriented more towards the results of that inclusion: an array of recent innovations in the field. Reflecting this crucial distinction, the book has been divided into two parts. The first twenty-seven chapters critically assess medicine and healthcare via methodologies [End Page 236] from disciplines of the humanities. The first section also acknowledges and addresses the intersectional realities of providing and receiving health (and social) care in conjunction with race, indigeneity, ethnicity, and geographical divisions. This systematic inclusion corresponds to the "interdisciplinary, inclusive, applied, democratizing and activist approach" favored by health humanities as a field (3). Using the entanglements of humanities to interrogate biomedicine—and taking into consideration the other, less recognized stakeholders in care—these early chapters also establish health humanities as theoretically well grounded. For instance, the first chapter on genealogies of care borrows theoretical support from Foucault to understand the idea of recovery, which might otherwise seem to be monolithic and rooted in biomedicine. The second section consists of chapters that are comparatively compact and detail the applications engendered at the interdisciplinary points of contact among various academic disciplines, creative practices, and the systems of healing and well-being. The section division resembles the attunement of the field to the collaboration between theory and practice. Allowing an intensive view into the diversity of theoretical backgrounds and methodologies available in health humanities, this division embodies the applied-ness of the field, showing the interdependence of theory and praxis. In this way, the collection addresses the critique that the field lacks uniformity, deeming this a necessary sacrifice for inclusion. For example, Peter Meineck's chapters, "Post Conflict Resolution and the Health Humanities: The Warrior Chorus Program" and its applied counterpart, "Classics," both explore the same activist concept of supporting the veterans of wars through dramatic classics. The former discusses the background, methodology, and objectives of the program. The latter chapter expands on the practical side of the program, detailing its individual and community impact. It also highlights consequent public engagement and academic output within and beyond the veteran community. It will not be an overstatement to say that the section division systematically introduces readers to different ways of practicing health humanities.
The introduction by Crawford chronologically follows the shift to health humanities from what he considers the more restrictive scholarship of the domain of medical humanities. The introduction provides a remarkably useful preamble for beginners and experts alike. The first section, titled "Reflections and Critical Perspectives," contains chapters by academicians and theorists, including perspectives on subjects...
The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities ed. by Paul Crawford, Brian Brown, and Andrea Charise (review)
以下是内容的简要摘录,以代替摘要:评论者 The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities ed. by Paul Crawford, Brian Brown, and Andrea Charise Sakshi Srivastava (bio) Paul Crawford, Brian Brown, and Andrea Charise, eds.The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities.Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2020.492 pp.精装本,280.00 美元。自 2010 年保罗-克劳福德(Paul Crawford)及其同事首次建议扩大医学人文的范围,将医学以外的治疗实践和医生以外的护理人员纳入其中以来,健康人文作为一个跨学科领域不断发展,涵盖了各种方法和理论观点。1 《Routledge Health Humanities Companion》是对这一视角的延续,它细致入微地收录了从广泛的学术兴趣、实践改进和患者需求中产生的理论和实践文章,"涉及那些被医学人文学科边缘化的人的贡献 "2。被边缘化的人包括患者、他们的家人、非医生的医疗保健专业人员、教育工作者甚至社会工作者--那些经常被生物医学机构影响、关联和从属的人。这些声音在知识和话语上的存在,从本质上全面批判了生物医学的自给自足观念。这本文集还体现了 "共创"、"合作 "和共同学习的理念,以思考医疗保健领域的艺术和人文问题,而不是医学人文领域中那种将知识自主权置于非医学知识或生活知识之上的做法(6)。这意味着要以一种非等级和协作的方式来寻找解决健康相关问题的方法,同时改变和质疑可被认定和处理为纯粹生物医学问题的界限。过去,克劳福德及其同事坚持对健康人文科学进行更具包容性的理解。这本文集也坚持了这一观点,但更注重包容性的结果:该领域的一系列最新创新。为了体现这一重要区别,本书分为两个部分。前二十七章通过人文学科的方法 [完 236 页] 对医学和医疗保健进行批判性评估。第一部分还承认并探讨了提供和接受医疗(和社会)护理时与种族、土著、民族和地理分界有关的交叉现实。这种系统性的纳入符合健康人文科学作为一个领域所倡导的 "跨学科、包容性、应用性、民主化和行动主义的方法"(3)。利用人文学科的纠葛对生物医学进行拷问,并考虑到医疗保健中其他较少被认可的利益相关者,这些早期章节也确立了健康人文科学的理论基础。例如,第一章 "护理谱系 "借用福柯的理论支持来理解 "康复 "这一概念,否则 "康复 "这一概念似乎是单一的,植根于生物医学。第二部分由相对紧凑的章节组成,详细介绍了各学科、创造性实践以及治疗和福祉系统之间的跨学科接触点所产生的应用。章节的划分体现了该领域对理论与实践合作的重视。该部分深入探讨了健康人文领域的各种理论背景和方法,体现了该领域的应用性,显示了理论与实践的相互依存性。通过这种方式,文集回应了对该领域缺乏统一性的批评,认为这是包容的必要牺牲。例如,彼得-梅内克(Peter Meineck)的 "冲突后解决与健康人文"(Post Conflict Resolution and the Health Humanities:战士合唱计划 "及其应用对应章节 "经典 "都探讨了通过戏剧经典支持退伍军人这一相同的积极理念。前者讨论了该计划的背景、方法和目标。后一章阐述了该计划的实用性,详细介绍了其对个人和社区的影响。它还强调了退伍军人社区内外随之而来的公众参与和学术成果。可以毫不夸张地说,该章节系统地向读者介绍了不同的健康人文实践方式。克劳福德按时间顺序介绍了从他认为限制性较强的医学人文学科转向健康人文学科的过程。导言为初学者和专家提供了非常有用的前言。 第一部分题为 "反思与批判性视角",包含由学者和理论家撰写的章节,其中包括对一些主题的看法。
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Literature and Medicine is a journal devoted to exploring interfaces between literary and medical knowledge and understanding. Issues of illness, health, medical science, violence, and the body are examined through literary and cultural texts. Our readership includes scholars of literature, history, and critical theory, as well as health professionals.