{"product_id":"medicine-and-empathy-in-contemporary-british-fiction-an-intervention-in-medical-humanities-9780748686186","title":"Medicine and Empathy in Contemporary British Fiction: An Intervention in Medical Humanities","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOffers a new understanding of empathy and its relation to medicine and literature, as a critical intervention into the medical humanities\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\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\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eKey Features\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProvides a strong conceptual underpinning for the notion of empathy, drawing on phenomenology and feminist affect theory\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eRelates the idea of empathy not only to the clinical relation but also to medicine more broadly defined\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eRepositions 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\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anne Whitehead\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/19\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.10w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780748686186\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40120023941235,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_5e0c6055-2944-48c0-b6d1-8c222631c699.jpg?v=1653662596","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/medicine-and-empathy-in-contemporary-british-fiction-an-intervention-in-medical-humanities-9780748686186","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}