<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span> <p> <span>Reviewed by:</span> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> <em>Leprosy and Identity in the Middle Ages: From England to the Mediterranean</em> ed. by Elma Brenner and François-Olivier Touati <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Kaitlin Sager (bio) </li> </ul> Elma Brenner and François-Olivier Touati, eds. <em>Leprosy and Identity in the Middle Ages: From England to the Mediterranean</em>. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021. 424 pp. Hardcover, $140.00. <p>Elma Brenner and François-Olivier Touati's edited volume, <em>Leprosy and Identity in the Middle Ages: From England to the Mediterranean</em>, is an invaluable addition to the body of work on leprosy in the medieval period. Encompassing the overlapping disciplines of history of medicine, <strong>[End Page 225]</strong> cultural history, art history, as well as new findings in bioarchaeology, osteology, and paleopathology owing to innovations in ancient DNA (aDNA) research, this book successfully bridges the gap between the sciences and the humanities in disease studies. By focusing on identity as the central concept in their study, the contributors to this volume manage to dispel oft-repeated myths about medieval leprosy in Western Europe, especially the idea that its sufferers were subjected to complete isolation and institutional neglect and had to resort to mendicancy to survive. With a focus on both institutional and non-institutional constructions of identity around leprosy, the book not only addresses those who suffer from the infection, but also the communities with whom they interacted and to which they claimed membership. <em>Leprosy and Identity</em> is an essential read not only for scholars of the Middle Ages, but for anyone interested in the social history of disease. Its thoroughly researched chapters by scholars from a wide variety of disciplines help to make sense of an illness whose sufferers have been heavily stigmatized and historiographically misrepresented as social pariahs. This research reintegrates leprosy sufferers into complex social and institutional contexts, complicating and problematizing the simplified historical narrative of leprosy as a taboo disease which resulted in social isolation and rejection.</p> <p>Contributors to the volume address leprosy in many different geographical and chronological contexts but remain in conversation with one another by focusing on institutional settings, material histories, and language to better understand the experiences and identities of communities affected by leprosy. The book is comprised of five parts, with one to three chapters in each section. Part 1, "Approaching Leprosy and Identity," contains broad surveys based on geographical, historical, and archaeological data, helping to ground the reader in the historical and religious myths around the origins and initial spread of the infection. In chapter 3, for example, Damien Jeanne
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<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span> <p> <span>Reviewed by:</span> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> <em>The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities</em> ed. by Paul Crawford, Brian Brown, and Andrea Charise <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Sakshi Srivastava (bio) </li> </ul> Paul Crawford, Brian Brown, and Andrea Charise, eds. <em>The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities</em>. 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 entanglemen
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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<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span> <p> <span>Reviewed by:</span> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> <em>Modernism and Physical Illness: Sick Books</em> by Peter Fifield <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Jeremy Colangelo (bio) </li> </ul> Peter Fifield. <em>Modernism and Physical Illness: Sick Books</em>. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 272 pp. Hardcover, $80.00. <p>Peter Fifield's monograph <em>Modernism and Physical Illness</em> comes out at a time when modernism studies has been re-discovering illness and the body, with major texts like Elizabeth Outka's <em>Viral Modernism: The Influenza Pandemic and Interwar Literature</em>, Michael Davidson's <em>Invalid Modernism: Disability and the Missing Body of the Aesthetic</em>, and Maren Linett's <em>Bodies of Modernism: Physical Disability in Transatlantic Modernist Literature</em> showing the steady interest among scholars in this area.<sup>1</sup> Fifield's book is a worthy contribution to the research on illness in modernist literature, and a necessary one as well, for it serves as an important corrective to the broader tendency to see the major canonical works of modernist literature as disembodied, cerebral, and concerned mainly with abstractions. Instead, as Fifield argues, "illness is a central preoccupation of literary modernism," not only in the sense of it being a recurrent topic, but also in the sense of illness helping create literary modernism as it eventually became (1). Modern medical technology, he writes, results in "a transformation of bodily experience that renders the human subject at once more and less than its antecedents" (224). Changes in medical technology alter how subjects relate to their bodies, and by extension alter the way those bodies become the subject of art. In chronicling this process, Fifield shows how the medicalized subject is "both private … and collective," at once isolated in the sickbed and plugged into a complex social and technological network (227). Illness and medicine thus played a key role in producing "modernism's capacity for estranging the world," a capacity which is characteristic of the movement (228). <strong>[End Page 229]</strong></p> <p>Fifield frames his book against Virginia Woolf's essay "On Being Ill," where she argues that literature has in general neglected illness. The broad strokes of her argument are likely familiar to the readers of this journal—"novels, one would have thought, would have been devoted to influenza; epic poems to typhoid"<sup>2</sup>—but of special interest here is her subsequent claim that the lack of writing on illness has left authors without a vocabulary to describe it, leading to a retreat into abstraction. Fifield provides ample evidence to the contrary, though in doing so he also hitches his argument to Woolf's, a choice with both benefits and drawbacks. When discussing literature, British literary modernists could indeed divert into the transcendental, but
{"title":"Modernism and Physical Illness: Sick Books by Peter Fifield (review)","authors":"Jeremy Colangelo","doi":"10.1353/lm.2024.a935844","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2024.a935844","url":null,"abstract":"<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span>\u0000<p> <span>Reviewed by:</span> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> <em>Modernism and Physical Illness: Sick Books</em> by Peter Fifield <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Jeremy Colangelo (bio) </li> </ul> Peter Fifield. <em>Modernism and Physical Illness: Sick Books</em>. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 272 pp. Hardcover, $80.00. <p>Peter Fifield's monograph <em>Modernism and Physical Illness</em> comes out at a time when modernism studies has been re-discovering illness and the body, with major texts like Elizabeth Outka's <em>Viral Modernism: The Influenza Pandemic and Interwar Literature</em>, Michael Davidson's <em>Invalid Modernism: Disability and the Missing Body of the Aesthetic</em>, and Maren Linett's <em>Bodies of Modernism: Physical Disability in Transatlantic Modernist Literature</em> showing the steady interest among scholars in this area.<sup>1</sup> Fifield's book is a worthy contribution to the research on illness in modernist literature, and a necessary one as well, for it serves as an important corrective to the broader tendency to see the major canonical works of modernist literature as disembodied, cerebral, and concerned mainly with abstractions. Instead, as Fifield argues, \"illness is a central preoccupation of literary modernism,\" not only in the sense of it being a recurrent topic, but also in the sense of illness helping create literary modernism as it eventually became (1). Modern medical technology, he writes, results in \"a transformation of bodily experience that renders the human subject at once more and less than its antecedents\" (224). Changes in medical technology alter how subjects relate to their bodies, and by extension alter the way those bodies become the subject of art. In chronicling this process, Fifield shows how the medicalized subject is \"both private … and collective,\" at once isolated in the sickbed and plugged into a complex social and technological network (227). Illness and medicine thus played a key role in producing \"modernism's capacity for estranging the world,\" a capacity which is characteristic of the movement (228). <strong>[End Page 229]</strong></p> <p>Fifield frames his book against Virginia Woolf's essay \"On Being Ill,\" where she argues that literature has in general neglected illness. The broad strokes of her argument are likely familiar to the readers of this journal—\"novels, one would have thought, would have been devoted to influenza; epic poems to typhoid\"<sup>2</sup>—but of special interest here is her subsequent claim that the lack of writing on illness has left authors without a vocabulary to describe it, leading to a retreat into abstraction. Fifield provides ample evidence to the contrary, though in doing so he also hitches his argument to Woolf's, a choice with both benefits and drawbacks. When discussing literature, British literary modernists could indeed divert into the transcendental, but ","PeriodicalId":44538,"journal":{"name":"LITERATURE AND MEDICINE","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142207025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span> <p> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> Contributors <!-- /html_title --></li> </ul> <p><em>Kimberly Bain</em> is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia–Vancouver. Her most pressing and urgent concerns have consolidated around questions of the history, theory, and philosophy of the African diaspora. She is currently at work on two scholarly monographs. The first, entitled <em>On Black Breath</em>, traces a genealogy of breathing and Blackness in the United States. Her second, <em>Dirt: Soil and Other Dark Matter</em>, turns to dirt for understanding how Blackness has shaped global considerations of the Anthropocene and refused the extractive relations of racial capitalism.</p> <p><em>Jeremy Colangelo</em> studies disability, epistemology, and twentieth-century literature. He is the author of <em>Diaphanous Bodies: Ability, Disability, and Modernist Irish Literature</em> (University of Michigan Press, 2021) and the editor of <em>Joyce Writing Disability</em> (University of Florida Press, 2022) and the cluster <em>The Body Politic in Pain</em> (<em>Modernism/modernity</em>, 2023). He is also a creative writer and published a collection of stories, <em>Beneath the Statue</em>, in 2020.</p> <p><em>Anna Magdalena Elsner</em> is Associate Professor of French Studies and Medical Humanities at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Her area of expertise is death, dying, and mourning in twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, philosophy, and film. She is the author of <em>Mourning and Creativity in Proust</em> (Palgrave, 2017) and co-editor of <em>The Proustian Mind</em> (Routledge, 2022) and <em>Literature and Medicine</em> (Cambridge University Press, 2024). She is principal investigator of a European Research Council project engaging with the aesthetics, laws, and ethics of assisted dying (assistedlab.ch).</p> <p><em>Mia Florin-Sefton</em> is a Lecturer at Columbia University with research interests in modernist and contemporary British and American literature, social reproduction theory, the history of eugenics, and information science. Her academic writing has appeared or is forthcoming in <em>Diacritics, Modernism/modernity, Feminist Modernist Studies</em> Print Plus, and <em>Post45</em>, among others. For AY 2023–24 she is also a Public Humanities Fellow with the Humanities Center Initiative, New York.</p> <p><em>Nathan Gray</em> is a physician specializing in Internal Medicine and Palliative Care, and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He uses comics to promote empathy, educate others, and explore the ironies of the medical world. His work has been published in the <em>Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, British Medical Journal, American Medical Association Journal of Ethics, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, Annals of Interna
以下是内容的简要摘录，以代替摘要： 撰稿人 金伯利-贝恩是不列颠哥伦比亚大学温哥华分校英语语言文学系助理教授。她最关心和最迫切的问题是非洲移民社群的历史、理论和哲学。她目前正在撰写两部学术专著。第一本名为《论黑人的呼吸》（On Black Breath），追溯了美国呼吸和黑人的谱系。她的第二部专著《泥土：土壤和其他暗物质》（Dirt: Soil and Other Dark Matter）通过泥土来理解黑人如何塑造了人类世的全球考量，并拒绝种族资本主义的榨取关系。杰里米-科兰杰洛研究残疾、认识论和二十世纪文学。他著有《朦胧的身体》（Diaphanous Bodies）一书：Ability, Disability, and Modernist Irish Literature》（密歇根大学出版社，2021 年），《乔伊斯书写残疾》（佛罗里达大学出版社，2022 年）和《疼痛中的身体政治》（现代主义/现代性，2023 年）的编辑。他还是一位创意作家，并于 2020 年出版了小说集《雕像之下》。安娜-马格达莱纳-埃尔斯纳是瑞士圣加仑大学法语研究和医学人文副教授。她的专业领域是二十世纪和二十一世纪文学、哲学和电影中的死亡、濒死和哀悼。她是《普鲁斯特的哀悼与创造力》（Palgrave，2017 年）的作者，也是《普鲁斯特的心灵》（The Proustian Mind，Routledge，2022 年）和《文学与医学》（Literature and Medicine，剑桥大学出版社，2024 年）的共同编辑。她是欧洲研究理事会一个项目（assistedlab.ch）的主要研究者，该项目涉及辅助死亡的美学、法律和伦理。米娅-弗洛林-塞夫顿是哥伦比亚大学讲师，研究方向为现代主义和当代英美文学、社会再生产理论、优生学史和信息科学。她的学术论文已发表或即将发表在《Diacritics》、《Modernism/modernity》、《Feminist Modernist Studies Print Plus》和《Post45》等刊物上。2023-24 学年，她还是纽约人文中心计划的公共人文研究员。内森-格雷（Nathan Gray）是一名内科和姑息治疗专科医生，也是约翰斯-霍普金斯大学医学院的助理教授。他用漫画促进共鸣，教育他人，探索医学世界的讽刺。他的作品曾发表在《华盛顿邮报》、《洛杉矶时报》、《英国医学杂志》、《美国医学会伦理杂志》、《疼痛与症状管理杂志》、《内科学年鉴》和《叙事杂志》上。内森的《洛杉矶时报》图文社论获得了加州新闻出版商协会 2020 年社论漫画一等奖和四等奖。Franziska Gygax 是瑞士巴塞尔大学美国文学名誉教授，著有《来自内心的严肃大胆》（Serious Daring from Within）一书：Eudora Welty 小说中的女性叙事策略》（格林伍德，1990 年）和《格特鲁德-斯坦因的性别与流派》（格林伍德，1998 年）。她还在自传和文学与医学领域发表过作品，包括《感觉（和生病）：寻找疾病的语言》（Feeling (and Falling) Ill: Finding a Language of Illness），收录于《现代史中的疾病感觉》（Feeling Dis-ease in Modern History）：Rob Boddice 和 Bettina Hitzer 编辑（Bloomsbury，2022 年）。她是跨学科研究项目 "生命（超越）写作 "的联合主任：疾病叙事 "跨学科研究项目的联合主任，该项目由瑞士国家科学基金会资助。恩迪亚-海斯是达特茅斯学院非洲和非裔美国人研究系的瑟古德-马歇尔博士后研究员。她的研究探讨了非洲裔德克萨斯女性从闹鬼中产生的感官知识。通过关注感官，她注意到文化和黑人女性主义研究对日常知识的声音、视觉、文学和美学形式的浓厚兴趣。她的作品曾发表在《黑人学者》、《南方文化》、《美食家》以及《黑人女性主义社会学》、《黑人妇女与达罗娜》等多部选集上。Katja Herges 是一名文化研究学者和医生。她目前是波兰弗罗茨瓦夫大学健康与疾病跨学科研究中心的博士后学者。除医学学位外，她还在加州大学戴维斯分校获得了德语和女性主义理论与研究博士学位。她曾在神经免疫学、临床精神病学和心身医学以及医学伦理学领域担任过各种职务。基于她的跨学科背景，她的研究和教学位于德国文化与女性主义的交汇点。
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<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span> <p> <span>Reviewed by:</span> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> <em>Gaspare Tagliacozzi and Early Modern Surgery: Faces, Men, and Pain</em> by Paolo Savoia <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Viktoria von Hoffmann (bio) </li> </ul> Paolo Savoia. <em>Gaspare Tagliacozzi and Early Modern Surgery: Faces, Men, and Pain</em>. London: Routledge, 2019. 284 pp. Paperback, $51.99. <p>A translated and slightly revised edition of Paolo Savoia's <em>Cosmesi e Chirurgia. Bellezza, dolore e medicina nell'Italia moderna</em> (Milano, Editrice Bibliografica, 2017), this study follows Gaspare Tagliacozzi's (1545–1599) two-volume scholarly and technical book on the reconstructive surgery of the face, entitled <em>De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem</em> (On the surgical restoration of defects by grafting). The Bolognese physician and anatomist, often held to be the "father of plastic surgery," published this work in 1597 to present and justify the arm-flap method of reconstructing the mutilated parts of the nose. This procedure consisted in cutting a skin flap from the upper region of the arm and grafting it onto the nose, then keeping the two parts—arm and nose—attached together for three weeks before cutting the skin from the arm and shaping the new nose with the use of special molds. No doubt this was an impressive, demanding, and painful surgical procedure. But why would patients have opted to endure such a surgery, and who would have purchased a detailed and illustrated monograph on the subject? How, in short, did a textual tradition about reconstructive surgery emerge in print during the Renaissance? Answers, Savoia suggests, are to be found by exploring the very specific social, political, economic, medical, and cultural context of late sixteenth-century Bologna.</p> <p>The originality of Savoia's work lies in the great variety of angles, sources, questions, and fields he explores in order to cast light on this context. As he explains in the introduction, his aim is to offer a sort of <em>histoire totale</em> of Tagliacozzi's book by "pulling together […] various threads and methodologies" to highlight "the many facets of a practice and a discourse" (7). He therefore alternates micro-historical <strong>[End Page 221]</strong> inquiries about medical practitioners with wider theoretical explorations of Renaissance cultures of the face and shifting understandings of the body. The range and diversity of the primary sources is impressive, from archives documenting surgical practices and training to printed books from empirical and learned surgeons, and from books of secrets, physiognomy works, and agronomic treatises to natural philosophical and historical texts, in Latin and in the vernacular. These sources are used to provide fresh insights about the lives, training, careers, and social aspirations of barbers (who routinely performed what we would now consider minor surgical proc
以下是内容的简要摘录，以代替摘要：评论者： Gaspare Tagliacozzi 和 Early Modern Surgery：保罗-萨沃亚（Paolo Savoia）著，维多利亚-冯-霍夫曼（Viktoria von Hoffmann）（简历）。加斯帕雷-塔利亚科齐与早期现代外科：面孔、男人和痛苦》。伦敦：Routledge, 2019.284 pp.平装本，51.99 美元。Paolo Savoia 的《Cosmesi e Chirurgia》的翻译和略微修订版。Bellezza, dolore e medicina nell'Italia moderna》（米兰，Editrice Bibliografica 出版社，2017 年），本研究是继加斯帕雷-塔利亚科齐（Gaspare Tagliacozzi，1545-1599 年）关于面部整形手术的两卷本学术和技术著作《De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem》（《论通过移植手术修复缺损》）之后的又一研究成果。这位被誉为 "整形外科之父 "的博洛尼亚医生和解剖学家于 1597 年出版了这本著作，介绍并论证了重建鼻子残缺部分的臂瓣法。这种方法是从手臂上部切下一块皮瓣，移植到鼻子上，然后将手臂和鼻子两部分固定在一起三周，再切下手臂上的皮肤，用特殊的模具塑造新鼻子。毫无疑问，这是一个令人印象深刻、要求严格和痛苦的手术过程。但是，为什么病人会选择忍受这样的手术，又有谁会去购买一本详细的、图文并茂的专著呢？简而言之，文艺复兴时期的印刷品中是如何出现关于整形外科的文字传统的？萨沃亚认为，答案可以通过探索 16 世纪晚期博洛尼亚非常特殊的社会、政治、经济、医学和文化背景来找到。萨沃亚作品的独创性在于，他从各种角度、资料来源、问题和领域进行探索，以揭示这一背景。正如他在引言中解释的那样，他的目的是通过 "汇集[......]各种线索和方法"，为塔利亚科齐的著作提供一种全史，以突出 "一种实践和一种论述的多面性"(7)。因此，他交替使用了有关行医者的微观历史[第221页完]探究与文艺复兴时期面部文化和对身体不断变化的理解的广泛理论探索。原始资料的范围和多样性令人印象深刻，既有记录外科手术实践和培训的档案，也有来自经验丰富、学识渊博的外科医生的印刷书籍；既有秘籍、相术著作和农学论文，也有拉丁文和白话文的自然哲学和历史文献。这些资料为我们提供了有关理发师（他们经常进行我们现在认为是小手术的治疗）和外科医生的生活、培训、职业和社会抱负的新见解，进而揭示了影响和指导《De curtorum》创作的背景。正如萨沃亚所展示的，正是这种背景帮助构建了 16 世纪外科专业技术和男性气质的概念。在该书涉及的众多主题和问题中，有三条主线似乎既是作者论证的核心，也与当前跨学科的学术讨论密切相关：16 世纪身体工作者这一庞杂类别的概念；疼痛的性别体验；以及文艺复兴时期艺术与自然的交集。首先，本书的主角是萨沃亚所说的文艺复兴时期的 "身体工作者"。在桑德拉-卡瓦洛（Sandra Cavallo）关于十七和十八世纪 "身体工匠 "1 的重要著作基础上，他为早期教皇国中关注健康和外表（p politezza）的工匠提出了一个不那么宽泛但同样多变的类别。这些工匠（研究生和非研究生外科医生、理发师和理发外科医生）之间的区别往往比文献证据所显示的要大。作者展示了他们之间技能、工具和做法的连续性，认为外科医生和理发师应被视为 "同一类别中的不同种类"（134）。同样，外科手术和美容 "被放在一个连续体上，或至少在同一职业文化中"（133）。同样，萨沃亚认为，医生和理发师之间的关系应该以一种更细致的方式来理解，尤其是在意大利，因为外科是一门在大学教授的著名学科。他建议我们考虑......
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Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric (2014) represents physical pain as a multidimensional experience entwined with history, language, and culture. By linking descriptions of anti-Black racist encounters with the imagery of somatic aches, Rankine blurs the boundaries between psychological suffering and physical distress to offer readers a nuanced depiction of the way racist discourse can both cause and, most crucially, shape one's private perception of corporeal agony. She zeros in on the experience of headaches to represent the interwoven relationship between the psycholinguistic contours of thought and bodily hurt, insisting that physical pain is more than a physiological alarm whose essence lies outside of language and culture.
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In operation for over a century, the Indian Residential School system is a painful part of Canadian history. Through the theoretical approaches to pain envisioned by Elaine Scarry, Javier Moscoso, and Ilit Ferber, this article examines how the pain of residential school experiences manifests as silence among residential school survivors. Through a close analysis of narratives that break free from that silence, it becomes apparent that narrative offers one path to national reconciliation. While arguing in favor of narrative as a path towards national reconciliation, this article cautions readers against reducing residential school narratives to a form of trauma spectatorship.
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<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span> <p> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> Guest Editor's Introduction:<span>Pain's Plurals and Narrative Disruption: Communicating Pain and Honoring Its Telling</span> <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Sara Wasson (bio) </li> </ul> <blockquote> <p><span><em>How to narrate an illness</em></span><span><em>in fairer climates and</em></span><span><em>to fair-weather figures</em>.</span></p> <p><span>*</span></p> <p><span><em>How not to</em>.</span></p> —<em>Amy Allara</em><sup>1</sup> </blockquote> <p>Pain may be a wind, a mist, live burial, a rubbish tip, a concrete suit, shattered glass, a knife.<sup>2</sup> Discussions of pain can readily become a list of the vivid metaphors created as people reach for language in extremity.<sup>3</sup> Each of these metaphors—and this entire theme issue—is an example of the way pain generates words: it inspires telling. Yet despite such an abundance of language, a refrain of "invisibility" remains disturbingly prevalent in the lived experience of many people with pain, both mental and physical (and indeed pain problematizes that divide in multiple ways). This introduction to this issue will review and contextualize relevant recent debates in the cultural studies of pain. One of my primary aims in curating this issue is to acknowledge that insofar as pain experience poses challenges to representation, that is less a function of any intrinsic unspeakability of pain, and more of a varying cultural <em>legibility</em> of pain. Expectations of illness story—in the sense of both the events and the narrative of those events, the way they are told—has a direct impact on what kinds of pain experience <strong>[End Page 283]</strong> can most readily be heard, and who is heard. Cultural contexts and expectations of illness story influence what can be heard in pain, what can be known about it, and who is respected as knowing. These are matters of epistemic justice.<sup>4</sup></p> <p>Each article in this issue examines writing which brings pain vividly to life, and shows how a particular telling of pain requires unsettling certain conventions of writing or illness expression. While narratology notes the difference between story (events, plot) and narrative (the telling of those events), the essays in this issue are less concerned with precise narratological anatomization of narrative, and more interested in the cultural work done <em>by</em> narratives, by the telling of events within specific forms.<sup>5</sup> Writing pain may require disruptions, textual experimentation and the breaching of cultural expectations of what narratives should do and who should tell them.</p> <p>Pain takes many forms and has many temporalities. In the form of "chronic" or persistent pain, for example, it affects over 20 percent of all adults in the US, and for 12 percent of those people the pain severely impacts multiple parts of their life.<sup>6</sup> Global estimat
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Recent studies of pain have disputed the idea that pain eludes representation in language. Where these have largely focused on the experience of pain, my paper examines the epistemological function of pain in crime fiction, a genre that by definition foregrounds meaning: what and how we know. A good crime story depends structurally on resolution, but its pleasure derives more thoroughly from suspense. Pain would seem to defy those logics; surely we long for its ending, not its persistence. Yet many contemporary detectives do their work in pain, embodying an impossible contradiction between chaos and order. This suggests that pain is somehow integral to the process of knowing, inviting us to rethink pain as disrupting rather than constituting the forward motion of meaning.
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How might flash writing be useful in communicating chronic pain? This question drove the UKRI AHRC-funded project Translating Chronic Pain at Lancaster University (2017–2019), which focused on the potential of fragmentary, episode-driven forms. This article examines how the ultra-short form and navigation architectures of the Translating Pain online anthology facilitate a polyphony of responses to pain that neither deny the validity of distress nor make recovery a solitary, individual act. The anthology's polyphony of voices encompasses a broad register of affects and, at times, offers a commitment to the inconclusive—to ambivalent and unfinished experiences of pain, without moving too quickly to culturally sanctioned closures of optimism or individual overcoming.
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