{"title":"Things I Find on the Ground.","authors":"K C Councilor","doi":"10.1353/lm.2022.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2022.0005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44538,"journal":{"name":"LITERATURE AND MEDICINE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40625431","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}
that will follow. The professionalization of literary criticism, a story told in part by Moi, was necessary in its time. In historical cycles, however, what begins by liberating something ends up suppressing something else. The metaphor of the Protestant Reformation took over my thinking as I held these books together. What they offer is nothing less than a new dispensation of readership that has no need for priestly mediation. What counts is that literature connect to the life of the reader; more exactly, the moment when a reader feels that connection, moments that seem, as Davis describes them, to be a form of secular grace. The connections of reading to life should remain multiple and unstable, never settling into another fixed narrative that sets boundaries around a life’s possibilities. What counts is how companionship, both with what is read and within communities of shared reading, enables confronting fears, being able to see through them to what Georgina, with whom I started, calls “what’s really going on.” Although if you asked her what that is, she would probably reread to you, aloud, a passage from Conrad; that’s the circularity of it. This new dispensation for reading does not put critics or teachers of literature out into the cold. Davis’s research and The Reader’s practices both emphasize that reading needs dialogue with other readers, and dialogue needs facilitation—but facilitation is not mediation. Davis’s continuing work as a literary biographer shows how scholarship still has a vital role. But these books mark a shift in locus of authority and in purpose. Reading is for life.
{"title":"Thinking with Metaphors in Medicine: The State of the Art by Alan Bleakley (review)","authors":"Anita Wohlmann","doi":"10.1353/lm.2021.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2021.0012","url":null,"abstract":"that will follow. The professionalization of literary criticism, a story told in part by Moi, was necessary in its time. In historical cycles, however, what begins by liberating something ends up suppressing something else. The metaphor of the Protestant Reformation took over my thinking as I held these books together. What they offer is nothing less than a new dispensation of readership that has no need for priestly mediation. What counts is that literature connect to the life of the reader; more exactly, the moment when a reader feels that connection, moments that seem, as Davis describes them, to be a form of secular grace. The connections of reading to life should remain multiple and unstable, never settling into another fixed narrative that sets boundaries around a life’s possibilities. What counts is how companionship, both with what is read and within communities of shared reading, enables confronting fears, being able to see through them to what Georgina, with whom I started, calls “what’s really going on.” Although if you asked her what that is, she would probably reread to you, aloud, a passage from Conrad; that’s the circularity of it. This new dispensation for reading does not put critics or teachers of literature out into the cold. Davis’s research and The Reader’s practices both emphasize that reading needs dialogue with other readers, and dialogue needs facilitation—but facilitation is not mediation. Davis’s continuing work as a literary biographer shows how scholarship still has a vital role. But these books mark a shift in locus of authority and in purpose. Reading is for life.","PeriodicalId":44538,"journal":{"name":"LITERATURE AND MEDICINE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/lm.2021.0012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45690115","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}
1. See Cohen, Body Worth Defending. 2. As Neel Ahuja, Warwick Anderson, John Farley, and John Ettling have respectively shown, the American colonial state and organizations such as the Rockefeller Foundation played a major role in the pathologization of people of color both in the mainland South and in offshore territories. See Ahuja, Bioinsecurities; Anderson, Colonial Pathologies; Farley, Bilharzia; and Ettling, Germ of Laziness. 3. See for instance Sherry, “(Post)colonising Disability.” 4. Treichler, “AIDS, Homophobia, and Biomedical Discourse,” 31.
{"title":"The Language of Disease: Writing Syphilis in Nineteenth-Century France by Steven Wilson (review)","authors":"J. McCullough","doi":"10.1353/lm.2021.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2021.0015","url":null,"abstract":"1. See Cohen, Body Worth Defending. 2. As Neel Ahuja, Warwick Anderson, John Farley, and John Ettling have respectively shown, the American colonial state and organizations such as the Rockefeller Foundation played a major role in the pathologization of people of color both in the mainland South and in offshore territories. See Ahuja, Bioinsecurities; Anderson, Colonial Pathologies; Farley, Bilharzia; and Ettling, Germ of Laziness. 3. See for instance Sherry, “(Post)colonising Disability.” 4. Treichler, “AIDS, Homophobia, and Biomedical Discourse,” 31.","PeriodicalId":44538,"journal":{"name":"LITERATURE AND MEDICINE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/lm.2021.0015","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46397326","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}
While this personal history is not readily apparent in the rest of the work, the preface prepares the reader to confront the subsequent subject matter not as an abstract theoretical project but one with tangible consequences for real people and the real world. Just as epidemiology strives to create a horizontal picture of a disease-event with attention to region, timing, and scale, so too does epidemiological reading situate disparate texts in a single field of analysis, facilitating conversation between texts rather than solely relying on a hermeneutics of suspicion which, as Raza Kolb argues, resembles the depth-interior model of the clinical gaze. [...]in the first chapter she reads Rudyard Kipling’s Kim alongside narratives of how a sham public health campaign played a role in identifying and killing Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan in 2011. While the choice to whisk through so many different genres is not theorized, nor is it discussed how epidemiology may inform these genres in distinct ways, it aligns Raza Kolb’s approach with that of cultural studies, where texts from many genres are examined together as an archive of culture. [...]it demonstrates that the mediation of texts may be as important to the method of epidemiological reading as the texts themselves.
虽然这段个人历史在作品的其余部分并不明显，但序言让读者准备好面对随后的主题，而不是作为一个抽象的理论项目，而是一个对真实的人和真实世界产生切实影响的项目。正如流行病学努力创造一个关注区域、时间和规模的疾病事件的横向画面一样，流行病学阅读也将不同的文本置于单一的分析领域，促进文本之间的对话，而不是仅仅依赖怀疑的解释学，正如拉扎·科尔布所说，怀疑的解释学类似于临床凝视的深度内部模型。[…]在第一章中，她阅读了鲁迪亚德·吉卜林（Rudyard Kipling）的《金》（Kim），同时讲述了一场虚假的公共卫生运动如何在2011年巴基斯坦识别并杀害奥萨马·本·拉登（Osama Bin Laden）中发挥作用。虽然选择快速浏览这么多不同的流派并没有理论化，也没有讨论流行病学如何以不同的方式为这些流派提供信息，但它将拉扎·科尔布的方法与文化研究的方法相一致，在文化研究中，来自多个流派的文本被作为文化档案一起检查。[…]这表明，文本的中介作用对流行病学阅读方法的重要性可能与文本本身一样。
{"title":"Epidemic Empire: Colonialism, Contagion, and Terror, 1817–2020 by Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb (review)","authors":"Bassam Sidiki","doi":"10.1353/lm.2021.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2021.0014","url":null,"abstract":"While this personal history is not readily apparent in the rest of the work, the preface prepares the reader to confront the subsequent subject matter not as an abstract theoretical project but one with tangible consequences for real people and the real world. Just as epidemiology strives to create a horizontal picture of a disease-event with attention to region, timing, and scale, so too does epidemiological reading situate disparate texts in a single field of analysis, facilitating conversation between texts rather than solely relying on a hermeneutics of suspicion which, as Raza Kolb argues, resembles the depth-interior model of the clinical gaze. [...]in the first chapter she reads Rudyard Kipling’s Kim alongside narratives of how a sham public health campaign played a role in identifying and killing Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan in 2011. While the choice to whisk through so many different genres is not theorized, nor is it discussed how epidemiology may inform these genres in distinct ways, it aligns Raza Kolb’s approach with that of cultural studies, where texts from many genres are examined together as an archive of culture. [...]it demonstrates that the mediation of texts may be as important to the method of epidemiological reading as the texts themselves.","PeriodicalId":44538,"journal":{"name":"LITERATURE AND MEDICINE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/lm.2021.0014","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49326192","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}
{"title":"The Science of Starving in Victorian Literature, Medicine, & Political Economy by Andrew Mangham (review)","authors":"D. Newby","doi":"10.1353/lm.2021.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2021.0013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44538,"journal":{"name":"LITERATURE AND MEDICINE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/lm.2021.0013","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42821394","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}
{"title":"Character: Three Inquiries in Literary Studies by Amanda Anderson, Rita Felski and Toril Moi, and: Reading for Life by Philip Davis (review)","authors":"A. Frank","doi":"10.1353/lm.2021.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2021.0011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44538,"journal":{"name":"LITERATURE AND MEDICINE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/lm.2021.0011","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41965524","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}
{"title":"Metagnosis: Revelatory Narratives of Health and Identity by Danielle Spencer (review)","authors":"B. Lewis","doi":"10.1353/lm.2020.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2020.0027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44538,"journal":{"name":"LITERATURE AND MEDICINE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/lm.2020.0027","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49414899","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}
{"title":"Breathe","authors":"M. Czerwiec","doi":"10.1183/20735734","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1183/20735734","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44538,"journal":{"name":"LITERATURE AND MEDICINE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41671480","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}
Alternative medicine is never more topical than during a pandemic. Since it began, Covid-19 has brought forth anti-vaxxers, Covid-deniers, and questionable remedies in ways that parallel responses to earlier disease crises. Allopathic medicine has historically proven ineffective against chronic pain, degenerative illnesses, migraines, insomnia, and psychological complaints, leading unsatisfied patients to seek care from chiropractors, osteopaths, mesmerists, and Christian Science healers.3 Such unorthodox therapies have disproportionately appealed to women, who have a harder time getting doctors to take their pain seriously and who were, until the 1990s, seldom included in clinical trials of new medications and treatments.4 Today, “Americans now consult their homeopaths, naturopaths, herbalists, acupuncturists, chiropractors, and Reiki workers more often than they see their primary care physicians,” as Steve Silberman wrote in 2015.5 A similar situation prevails in Britain, where “dozens of . . . creative, sensory, mind-body and manual therapies” vie for prominence with traditional medicine.6 How did we get here? [...]though, both the idea of scientific medicine and the distinction between orthodox and alternative medicine are relatively new. Some alternative treatment systems, such as Thomsonianism with its reliance on harsh emetics, were scarcely less punishing than their allopathic counterparts.14 Nevertheless, the heterodox emphases on individual choice and on gentle, natural healing understandably attracted many customers. [...]midcentury, allopaths promoted so-called “heroic” remedies such as bleeding, emetics, laxatives, blistering, and the application of leeches to the skin.
{"title":"Introduction: Alternative Approaches to Health and Wellness in the Nineteenth Century.","authors":"Anne Stiles, Kristine Swenson","doi":"10.1353/lm.2021.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2021.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Alternative medicine is never more topical than during a pandemic. Since it began, Covid-19 has brought forth anti-vaxxers, Covid-deniers, and questionable remedies in ways that parallel responses to earlier disease crises. Allopathic medicine has historically proven ineffective against chronic pain, degenerative illnesses, migraines, insomnia, and psychological complaints, leading unsatisfied patients to seek care from chiropractors, osteopaths, mesmerists, and Christian Science healers.3 Such unorthodox therapies have disproportionately appealed to women, who have a harder time getting doctors to take their pain seriously and who were, until the 1990s, seldom included in clinical trials of new medications and treatments.4 Today, “Americans now consult their homeopaths, naturopaths, herbalists, acupuncturists, chiropractors, and Reiki workers more often than they see their primary care physicians,” as Steve Silberman wrote in 2015.5 A similar situation prevails in Britain, where “dozens of . . . creative, sensory, mind-body and manual therapies” vie for prominence with traditional medicine.6 How did we get here? [...]though, both the idea of scientific medicine and the distinction between orthodox and alternative medicine are relatively new. Some alternative treatment systems, such as Thomsonianism with its reliance on harsh emetics, were scarcely less punishing than their allopathic counterparts.14 Nevertheless, the heterodox emphases on individual choice and on gentle, natural healing understandably attracted many customers. [...]midcentury, allopaths promoted so-called “heroic” remedies such as bleeding, emetics, laxatives, blistering, and the application of leeches to the skin.","PeriodicalId":44538,"journal":{"name":"LITERATURE AND MEDICINE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/lm.2021.0005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39112321","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}
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