Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Palgrave Macmillan

New Directions in Literature and Medicine Studies

  • Book
  • © 2017

Overview

Editors:
  1. Stephanie M. Hilger

    1. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  • Brings contributors from across a diverse range of disciplines into conversation with each other
  • Bridges the medicine/literature divide through a varied, intellectually stimulating selection of essays from top scholars
  • Discusses topics as diverse as pedagogy, the mind-body connection, alterity, and medical practice.
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 109.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book USD 139.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Introduction: Bridging the Divide Between Literature and Medicine

    • Stephanie M. Hilger
    Pages 1-12
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

This book is situated in the field of medical humanities, and the articles continue the dialogue between the disciplines of literature and medicine that was initiated in the 1970s and has continued with ebbs and flows since then. Recently, the need to renew that interdisciplinary dialogue between these two fields, which are both concerned with the human condition, has resurfaced in the face of institutional challenges, such as shrinking resources and the disappearance of many spaces devoted to the exchange of ideas between humanists and scientists. This volume presents cutting-edge research by scholars keen on not only maintaining but also enlivening that dialogue. They come from a variety of cultural, academic, and disciplinary backgrounds and their essays are organized in four thematic clusters: pedagogy, the mind-body connection, alterity, and medical practice.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA

    Stephanie M. Hilger

About the editor

Stephanie M. Hilger is Professor of Comparative Literature and German at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA where she also holds appointments in French, Gender and Women’s Studies, and the European Union Center. Her research focuses on eighteenth-century British, French, and German literature, with a particular interest in interdisciplinary approaches to literature. She is the author of Women Write Back: Strategies of Response and the Dynamics of European Literary Culture, 1790-1805 (2009) and Gender and Genre: German Women Write the French Revolution (2014). She is also the co-editor of The Early History of Embodied Cognition from 1740 to 1920: The “Lebenskraft” Debate and Radical Reality in German Science, Music, and Literature (2015).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: New Directions in Literature and Medicine Studies

  • Editors: Stephanie M. Hilger

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51988-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-51987-0Published: 20 November 2017

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-51988-7Published: 11 November 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 415

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Literary History, History of Medicine

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation