New Directions in Literature and Medicine Studies

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Introduction: Bridging the Divide Between Literature and Medicine

   • Stephanie M. Hilger

   Pages 1-12

3. History and Pedagogy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Reading and Writing One’s Way to Wellness: The History of Bibliotherapy and Scriptotherapy

      • Janella D. Moy

      Pages 15-30

   3. Why Teach Literature and Medicine? Answers from Three Decades

      • Anne Hudson Jones

      Pages 31-48

   4. Intellectual Cosmopolitanism as Stewardship in Medical Humanities and Undergraduate Writing Pedagogy

      • Lisa M. DeTora

      Pages 49-70

   5. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Teaching an Interdisciplinary Course on “A Cultural and Evolutionary History of Sexuality” But Were Afraid to Ask

      • Jennifer Wynne Hellwarth, Ronald L. Mumme

      Pages 71-97

   6. Medical Professionalism: Using Literary Narrative to Explore and Evaluate Medical Professionalism

      • Casey Hester, Jerry B. Vannatta, Ronald Schleifer

      Pages 99-116

4. Body and Mind

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117

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   2. Mind, Breath, and Voice in Chaucer’s Romance Writing

      • Corinne Saunders

      Pages 119-141

   3. Affect and the Organs in the Anatomical Poems of Paul Celan: Encountering Medical Discourse

      • Vasiliki Dimoula

      Pages 143-163

   4. Reading the DSM-5 Through Literature: The Value of Subjective Knowing

      • Christine Marks

      Pages 165-179

   5. Anecdotal Evidence: What Patient Poets Provide

      • Marilyn McEntyre

      Pages 181-201

   6. “L’Œil Gauche Barré:” Migraine, Scotoma, and Allied Disorders in Emile Zola’s Novels

      • Janice Zehentbauer

      Pages 203-220

5. Physical and Cultural Alterity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 221-221

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   2. Corporeal Abnormality as Intellectual and Cultural Capital: Jean Fernel’s Pathologiae Libri, Ambroise Paré’s Des Monstres et Prodiges, and Michel de Montaigne’s Essais

      • Yuri Kondratiev

      Pages 223-241

   3. The Primacy of Touch: Helen Keller’s Embodiment of Language

      • Sun Jai Kim

      Pages 243-251

   4. Unsound Elegy: Breast Cancer in The Dying Animal by Philip Roth and Elegy by Isabel Coixet

      • Federica Frediani

      Pages 253-265

   5. Reading Colonial Dis-ease/Disease in Hong Kong Modernist Fiction

      • C. T. Au

      Pages 267-280

   6. Anandibai Joshi’s Passage to America (and More): The Making of a Hindu Lady Doctor

      • Sandhya Shetty

      Pages 281-303

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.

• Literature and medicine
• Medicine studies
• Medical humanities
• Emile Zoma
• Helen Keller
• Anton Chekhov
• Mind-body
• Pedagogy

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

  Stephanie M. Hilger

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).

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