Davies, M and Shamdasani, S (Eds).
(2020)
Medical Humanity and Inhumanity in the German-Speaking World.
Fringe.
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
Medical Humanity and Inhumanity in the German-Speaking World is the first volume dedicated to exploring the interface of medicine, the human and the humane in the German-speaking lands. The volume tracks the designation and making through medicine of the human and inhuman, and the humane and inhumane, from the Middle Ages to the present day. Eight individual chapters undertake explorations into ways in which theories and practices of medicine in the German-speaking world have come to define the human, and highlight how such theories and practices have consolidated, or undermined, notions of humane behaviour. Cultural analysis is central to this investigation, foregrounding the reflection, refraction and indeed creation of these theories and practices in literature, life-writing and other discourses and media. Contributors bring to bear perspectives from literary studies, film studies, critical theory, cultural studies, history, and the history of medicine and psychiatry. Thus, this collection is historical in the most expansive sense, for it debates not only what historical accounts bring to our understanding of this topic. It encompasses too investigation of life-writing, documentary, and theory and literary works to bring to light elusive, paradoxical, underexplored – yet vital – issues in history and culture.
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | Medical Humanity and Inhumanity in the German-Speaking World |
| ISBN-13: | 9781787357716 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781787357716 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787357716 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Text © Contributors, 2020 Images © Copyright holders named in captions, 2020 This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Non-derivative 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This licence allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work for personal and non- commercial use providing author and publisher attribution is clearly stated. Attribution should include the following information: Davies, M.P. and Shamdasani, S. (eds.). 2020. Medical Humanity and Inhumanity in the German-Speaking World. London: UCL Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111. 9781787357716 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ Any third-party material in this book is published under the book’s Creative Commons licence unless indicated otherwise in the credit line to the material. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. |
| Keywords: | medical humanities, Germany, history, literature, medicine |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > SELCS |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10094781 |
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