{"product_id":"medicine-and-empathy-in-contemporary-british-fiction-a-critical-intervention-in-medical-humanities-paperback","title":"Medicine and Empathy in Contemporary British Fiction: A Critical Intervention in 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\u003eAnne Whitehead\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOffers a new understanding of empathy and its relation to medicine and literature, as a critical intervention into the medical humanities\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book marks a critical intervention in the medical humanities that takes issue with its understanding of empathy as something that one has. Drawing on phenomenology and feminist affect theory, it positions empathy as something that one does and that is embedded within structural, institutional, and cultural relations of power. More than this, it questions the assumption that empathy is limited to the clinical relation, thinking about medicine as more broadly defined. Combining theoretical argument with literary case studies of books by Mark Haddon, Pat Barker, Ian McEwan, Aminatta Forna and Kazuo Ishiguro, this book also contends that contemporary fiction is not a vehicle for accessing another's illness experience, but is itself engaging critically with the question of empathy and its limits. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eKey Features\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eProvides a strong conceptual underpinning for the notion of empathy, drawing on phenomenology and feminist affect theoryRelates the idea of empathy not only to the clinical relation but also to medicine more broadly definedRepositions literature's role in the medical humanities from a vehicle to access patient experience to a strategic intervention into current debates on empathy and its effects\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e*APPROVED* Offers a new understanding of empathy and its relation to medicine and literature This book marks a critical intervention in the medical humanities that takes issue with its understanding of empathy as something that one has. Drawing on phenomenology and feminist affect theory, it positions empathy as something that one does and that is embedded within structural, institutional, and cultural relations of power. More than this, it questions the assumption that empathy is limited to the clinical relation, thinking about medicine as more broadly defined. Combining theoretical argument with literary case studies of books by Mark Haddon, Pat Barker, Ian McEwan, Aminatta Forna and Kazuo Ishiguro, this book also contends that contemporary fiction is not a vehicle for accessing another's illness experience, but is itself engaging critically with the question of empathy and its limits. Anne Whitehead is Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Newcastle University. She is the author of Trauma Fiction (2004) and Memory: New Critical Idiom (2009).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnne Whitehead is Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Newcastle University, UK. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eTrauma Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e (Edinburgh, 2004) and \u003ci\u003eMemory: New Critical Idiom\u003c\/i\u003e (Routledge, 2009). She has co-edited \u003ci\u003eThe Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities\u003c\/i\u003e (Edinburgh, 2016), \u003ci\u003eTheories of Memory: A Reader\u003c\/i\u003e (Edinburgh, 2007) and \u003ci\u003eW. G. Sebald: A Critical Companion\u003c\/i\u003e (Edinburgh, 2004), as well as a special issue of \u003ci\u003eFeminist Theory\u003c\/i\u003e on feminism and affect. She has published articles on contemporary literature in a range of journals, including \u003ci\u003eModern Fiction Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTextual Practice\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eContemporary Literature\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 13, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52703572885811,"sku":"9781474452410","price":65.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/SGRMVHh1cFEzdDJDQlFmUU5wc2ZhUT09.webp?v=1763330419","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/medicine-and-empathy-in-contemporary-british-fiction-a-critical-intervention-in-medical-humanities-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}