Overview
- Seeks to reshape medical discourse and healthcare practice
- Asserts that American poetry has a larger role to play in medical humanism
- Presents a case for how posthumanist ethics can respond to our current historical situation
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine (PLSM)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Advancing Medical Posthumanism Through Twenty-First Century American Poetry places contemporary poetics in dialogue with posthumanism and biomedicine in order to create a framework for advancing a posthuman-affirmative ethics within the culture of medical practice. This book makes a case for a posthumanist understanding of the body—one that sees health and illness not as properties possessed by individual bodies, but as processes that connect bodies to their social and natural environment, shaping their capacity to act, think, and feel. Tana Jean Welch demonstrates how contemporary American poetry is specifically poised to develop a pathway toward a posthuman intervention in biomedicine, the field of medical humanities, medical discourse, and the value systems that guide U.S. healthcare in general.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Tana Jean Welch is a poet and scholar of medical humanities and contemporary American poetry. She is Associate Professor of Medical Humanities at the Florida State University College of Medicine where she teaches courses in literature, writing, and humanities and serves as Director of the Chapman Humanities and Arts in Medicine Program. Her critical work has been published in MELUS, The Journal of Ecocriticism, Literature and Medicine, and Academic Medicine. She is also the author of the poetry collections In Parachutes Descending (2024) and Latest Volcano (2016).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Advancing Medical Posthumanism Through Twenty-First Century American Poetry
Authors: Tana Jean Welch
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49888-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-49887-9Published: 08 February 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-49890-9Due: 10 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-49888-6Published: 07 February 2024
Series ISSN: 2634-6435
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6443
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 200
Topics: Poetry and Poetics, Contemporary Literature, Cultural Studies, Nursing Ethics, History of Science