Routledge Handbook of the Medical Humanities

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<P></P><P>This authoritative new handbook offers a comprehensive and cutting-edge overview of the state of the medical humanities globally, showing how clinically oriented medical humanities, the critical study of medicine as a global historical and cultural phenomenon, and medicine as a force for cultural change can inform each other.</P><P>Composed of eight parts, the <I>Routledge Handbook of the Medical Humanities </I>looks at the medical humanities as:</P><UL><LI>a network and system</LI><LI>therapeutic</LI><LI>provocation</LI><LI>forms of resistance</LI><LI>a way of reconceptualising the medical curriculum</LI><LI>concerned with performance and narrative</LI><LI>mediated by artists as diagnosticians of culture through public engagement.</LI></UL><P>This book describes how the medical humanities can be used in and out of clinical settings, acting as a point of resistance, redistributing medicine''s capital amongst its stakeholders, embracing the complexity of medical instances, sha