Literature and Medicine

Table of Contents

Part I. Origins: Histories:
1. Guts, hollows, and coils: Inside stories in ancient literature Chiara Thumiger
2. Medieval affect, the book of Margery Kempe, and medical treatments of the embodied Self Holly A. Crocker
3. Epidemiological language in Robert Burton's the anatomy of melancholy Jennifer Radden
4. Illness and the novel aesthetics Hosanna Krienke
5. Embodies traumas in twentieth and twenty-first century literature Alan Gibbs
Part II. Developments: Forms:
6. Illness and the 'fall' of language Steven Wilson
7. Translating chronic pain and the ethics of reading in the personal essay Marie Allitt
8. Physician-poets and vitalist theories of life James Morland
9. Healthcare anecdotes and the medically anecdotal Brian Hurwitz
10. Literary realism and mental breakdown Josie Billington
11. Time and narrative in the age of postnatural death: Maylis de Kerangal's the heart Jared Stark
12. Performance and/as contagion in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic Małgorzata Sugiera
13. The parallel chart as medico-literary practice Daniel Eison
14. Articulating the experiential in graphic medicine Kimberly R. Myers
Part III. Applications: Politics:
15. Malaria literature: (Post) colonial perspectives, infection, and the question of mobility Jessica Howell and Oishani Sengupta
16. Forgotten class: French literature, medicine, and poverty Loïc Bourdeau
17. The human endeavor: bioethics and biocapitalism in Don DeLillo's Zero K Justin Omar Johnston
18. Re-framing and Re-forming disability and literature Susannah B. Mintz
19. Overcoming decline (in) Narrative: Epdisodicity in stories of dementia and ageing Martina Zimmermann
20. Literature as a form of care? From therapeutic narratives to the literature of care Alexandre Gefen
21. Literature in collaboration: The work of literature in the critical medical humanities Angela Woods and James Rákóczi
Afterword: Medicine and literature after COVID-19 Anna M. Elsner and Monika Pietrzak-Franger.