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Anne Whitehead

Medicine and Empathy in Contemporary British Fiction: An Intervention in Medical Humanities

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*APPROVED*Offers a new understanding of empathy and its relation to medicine and literatureThis book marks a critical intervention in the medical humanities that takes issue with its understanding of empathy as something that one has. Drawing on phenomenology and feminist affect theory, it positions empathy as something that one does and that is embedded within structural, institutional, and cultural relations of power. More than this, it questions the assumption that empathy is limited to the clinical relation, thinking about medicine as more broadly defined. Combining theoretical argument with literary case studies of books by Mark Haddon,… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-4744-5241-0
  • EAN: 9781474452410
  • Produktnummer: 29116387
  • Verlag: Edinburgh Univ Pr
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
  • Seitenangabe: 224 S.
  • Masse: H22.6 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.7 cm 329 g
  • Gewicht: 329

Über den Autor


Anne Whitehead is Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Newcastle University, UK. She is the author of Trauma Fiction (Edinburgh, 2004) and Memory: New Critical Idiom (Routledge, 2009). She has co-edited The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities (Edinburgh, 2016), Theories of Memory: A Reader (Edinburgh, 2007) and W. G. Sebald: A Critical Companion (Edinburgh, 2004), as well as a special issue of Feminist Theory on feminism and affect. She has published articles on contemporary literature in a range of journals, including Modern Fiction Studies, Textual Practice, and Contemporary Literature.

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