Medicine and Empathy in Contemporary British Fiction: An Intervention in Medical Humanities Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

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

This 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, Pat Barker, Ian McEwan, Aminatta Forna and Kazuo Ishiguro, this book also contends that contemporary fiction is not a vehicle for accessing another's illness experience, but is itself engaging critically with the question of empathy and its limits.Read More

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  • 0748686185
  • 9780748686186
  • Anne Whitehead
  • 19 October 2017
  • Edinburgh University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 224
  • Book
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