Abstract
The critical and methodological overlap between the fields of emotion studies and medical humanities is gaining increasing scholarly attention and interest. This introduction will, after contextualising the impetus for the volume as whole, offer a brief overview of these two fields of study that will address their main epistemological and methodological assumptions. It will then proceed to outline the overall structure of the volume, providing a rationale for its main divisions, before summarising the essays in each.
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Andrew Graham-Dixon on Boy Bitten by a Lizard, audio clip, https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/michelangelo-merisi-da-caravaggio-boy-bitten-by-a-lizard.
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John Pattison, Tumours: Their Nature and Treatment (London: H. Turner and Co., 1869), 102–4.
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Fanny Burney, Selected Letters and Journals, ed. Joyce Hemlow (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), 138.
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Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (1855; Oxford: World’s Classics, 1990), 125.
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Gaskell, North and South, 126.
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Gaskell, North and South, 126.
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Edmund Gosse, Father and Son (1907; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), 34.
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See Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (London: Fourth Estate, 2011).
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Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1978), 6.
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Susan Sontag, AIDS and Its Metaphors (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989), 12.
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Sontag, AIDS and Its Metaphors, 16.
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Antonio Damasio, Descartes Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain (New York: Vintage, 2006); Daniel Goldman, Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More than IQ (New York: Bantam Books, 1995); Silvan S. Tompkins, Affect Imagery Consciousness, vol. 1–3 (New York: Springer Publishing Company, 1962–1991), and with H. A. Murray, Contemporary Psychopathology: A Source Book (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1943); and Eve Kosofsky Sedgewick and Adam Frank, “Shame in the Cybernetic Fold: Reading Silvan Tomkins,” in Shame and Its Sisters: A Silvan Tomkins Reader, eds. Eve Kosofsky Sedgewick and Adam Frank (Durham: Duke University Press, 1995), 1–28.
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Brian Massumi, “The Autonomy of Affect ,” Cultural Critique 31 (Autumn 1995): 83–109; Sarah Ahmed, The Cultural Politics of Emotion (New York: Routledge, 2004); Barbara H. Rosenwein, Emotional Communities in the Early Middle Ages (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006); Bruno Latour, “How to Talk About the Body? The Normative Dimension of Science Studies,” Body & Society 10, no. 2/3 (2004): 205–29; Lauren Berlant, “The Subject of True Feeling: Pain, Privacy and Politics,” in Cultural and Political Theory, ed. Jean Dodi (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000), 42–62, and her volume of essays Compassion: The Culture and Politics of an Emotion (New York: Routledge, 2004).
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Ahmed, 9.
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Simo Knuutila, Emotions in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), 4.
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Damien Boquet and Piroska Nagy, “Medieval Sciences of Emotions During the Eleventh to Thirteenth Centuries: An Intellectual History,” Osiris 31, no. 1 (2016): 24.
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Victoria Bates, Alan Bleakley, and Sam Goodman, eds., Medicine , Health and the Arts: Approaches to the Medical Humanities (London: Routledge, 2016); Howard Brody, Stories of Sickness (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003); Havi Carel, The Phenomenology of Illness (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016); Rita Charon, Narrative Medicine : Honoring the Stories of Illness (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006); Arthur Frank, At the Will of the Body: Reflections on Illness (Harcourt, Mariner Books, 1991), and his The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1997); Yasmin Gunaratnam and David Oliviere, eds., Narrative and Stories in Healthcare: Illness, Dying, and Bereavement (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009); Arthur F. Kleinman, The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, and the Human Condition (Basic Books, 1988); Athena Vrettos, Somatic Fictions: Imagining Illness in Victorian Culture (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995); and Anne Whitehead and Angela Woods, eds., The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016).
Bibliography
Primary
Burney, Fanny. Selected Letters and Journals. Edited by Joyce Hemlow. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986.
Gaskell, Elizabeth. North and South. 1855. Oxford: World’s Classics, 1990.
Gosse, Edmund. Father and Son. 1907. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Pattison, John. Tumours: Their Nature and Treatment. London: H. Turner and Co., 1869.
Sontag, Susan. Illness as Metaphor. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1978.
———. AIDS and Its Metaphors. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989.
Secondary
Ahmed, Sarah. The Cultural Politics of Emotion. New York: Routledge, 2004.
Bates, Victoria, Alan Bleakley, and Sam Goodman, eds. Medicine, Health and the Arts: Approaches to the Medical Humanities. London: Routledge, 2016.
Berlant, Lauren. “The Subject of True Feeling: Pain, Privacy and Politics.” In Cultural and Political Theory, edited by Jean Dodi, 42–62. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000.
———. Compassion: The Culture and Politics of an Emotion. New York: Routledge, 2004.
Boquet, Damien, and Piroska Nagy. “Medieval Sciences of Emotions During the Eleventh to Thirteenth Centuries: An Intellectual History.” Osiris 31, no. 1 (2016): 21–45.
Brody, Howard. Stories of Sickness. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Carel, Havi. The Phenomenology of Illness. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Charon, Rita. Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Damasio, Antonio. Descartes Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain. New York: Vintage, 2006.
Frank, Arthur. At the Will of the Body: Reflections on Illness. New York: Harcourt, Mariner Books, 1991.
———. The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1997.
Goldman, Daniel. Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More than IQ. New York: Bantam Books, 1995.
Graham-Dixon, Andrew on Boy Bitten by a Lizard. Audio clip. https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/michelangelo-merisi-da-caravaggio-boy-bitten-by-a-lizard.
Gunaratnam, Yasmin, and David Oliviere, eds. Narrative and Stories in Healthcare: Illness, Dying, and Bereavement. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Kleinman, Arthur F. The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, and the Human Condition. Michigan: Basic Books, 1988.
Knuutila, Simo. Emotions in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Kosofsky Sedgewick, Eve, and Adam Frank. “Shame in the Cybernetic Fold: Reading Silvan Tomkins.” In Shame and Its Sisters: A Silvan Tomkins Reader, edited by Eve Kosofsky Sedgewick and Adam Frank, 1–28. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995.
Latour, Bruno. “How to Talk About the Body? The Normative Dimension of Science Studies.” Body & Society 10, no. 2/3 (2004): 205–29.
Massumi, Brian. “The Autonomy of Affect.” Cultural Critique 31 (Autumn 1995): 83–109.
Mukherjee, Siddhartha. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. London: Fourth Estate, 2011.
Rosenwein, Barbara H. Emotional Communities in the Early Middle Ages. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006.
Tompkins, Silvan S. Affect, Imagery, Consciousness. Vol. 1–3. New York: Springer Publishing Company, 1962–1991.
Tompkins, Silvan S., and H. A. Murray, eds. Contemporary Psychopathology: A Source Book. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1943.
Vrettos, Athena. Somatic Fictions: Imagining Illness in Victorian Culture. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995.
Whitehead, Anne, and Angela Woods, eds. The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016.
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McCann, D., McKechnie-Mason, C. (2018). Introduction: A Dreadful Start. In: McCann, D., McKechnie-Mason, C. (eds) Fear in the Medical and Literary Imagination, Medieval to Modern. Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55948-7_1
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