{"product_id":"routledge-handbook-of-the-medical-humanities-paperback","title":"Routledge Handbook of the Medical Humanities - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBleakley Alan\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComposed of eight parts, the \u003ci\u003eRoutledge Handbook of the Medical Humanities \u003c\/i\u003elooks at the medical humanities as: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003ea network and system\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003etherapeutic\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eprovocation\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eforms of resistance\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ea way of reconceptualising the medical curriculum\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003econcerned with performance and narrative\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003emediated by artists as diagnosticians of culture through public engagement.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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, shaping medical education, promoting interdisciplinary understandings and recognising an identity for the medical humanities as a network effect. This book is an essential read for all students, scholars and practitioners with an interest in the medical humanities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlan Bleakley\u003c\/strong\u003e is Emeritus Professor of Medical Education and Medical Humanities at Plymouth University's Peninsula School of Medicine, UK, and Visiting Scholar at the Wilson Centre, University of Toronto, Canada. He is immediate past president of the Association for Medical Humanities Council.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 468\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9.5 x 6.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 13, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48532107493597,"sku":"9781032338101","price":130.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/9DEIGralLl9781032338101.webp?v=1788970003","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/routledge-handbook-of-the-medical-humanities-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}