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Medical Humanities in American Studies
Life Writing, Narrative Medicine, and the Power of Autobiography
American Studies – A Monograph Series, Bd. 292
2018
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Abstract
This book asks a seemingly simple question: How has the creation of new fields such as medical humanities and narrative medicine changed the humanities themselves, and American Studies more specifically? Turning to the genre of life writing, this study sets out to chart spaces in which a dialogue between the humanities and the life sciences can emerge. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, life writing narratives such as Tito Mukhopadhyay’s ‘Beyond the Silence’, Temple Grandin’s ‘Thinking in Pictures’, or Michael J. Fox’s ‘Lucky Man’ show that self-description has often become inseparable from biomedical terminology. Linking life writing narratives to discussions in bioethics and exploring the links between autobiography and brain research, this book sets out to wonder whether the divide between the “two cultures” of the humanities and the life sciences may not itself have become obsolete.
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| Zwischenüberschrift | Seite | Aktion | Preis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover | ||
| Titel-Page | iii | ||
| Imprint | iv | ||
| Table of Contents | v | ||
| Acknowledgments | vii | ||
| Preface | ix | ||
| 1 Introduction | 1 | ||
| 2 Temporalities in Life Writing: Tito Mukhopadhyay’s "Beyond the Silence" | 43 | ||
| 3 Bollywood Film and the Borders of Disability: Shah Rukh Khan Meets the American President | 65 | ||
| 4 “An Anthropologist on Mars”: Temple Grandin’s "Thinking in Pictures" | 103 | ||
| 5 “Living Autobiographically” in Modern Dance: Concepts of Aging in Mikhail Baryshnikov’s “HeartBeat: mb” Performance | 131 | ||
| 6 “Like a Hole in the Head”: Comedy and Parkinson’s Disease in Michael J. Fox’s Autobiographies "Always Looking Up" and "Lucky Man" | 161 | ||
| 7 Writing the Citizen: Growing Up with Down Syndrome in "Raising Henry" and "Count Us In" | 203 | ||
| 8 "Blue Hawaii"? Adam Horowitz’s Film "Nuclear Savage" and Collective Life Writing in the Pacific | 271 | ||
| 9 Trauma, Repatriation, and Representation: Life Writing as an Alternative Form of Knowledge Production | 307 | ||
| 10 Sustainability and Indigenous Life Writing Performances: “Dancing Earth” and "The Cherokee Word for Water" | 337 | ||
| 11 Conclusion | 359 | ||
| Works Cited | 373 | ||
| Backcover | 391 |
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