This book contains several critical essays, book reviews, and poems that address the current pandemic to mark a sad but hopeful first anniversary of COVID. Similar to many academic journals, the Journal of Medical Humanities, in which these contributions were first published, has received a number of submissions during the first year of the pandemic relating directly to it. In the early months, the journal saw an unprecedented number of poetry submissions from physicians who seemed to be turning to verse as a way to memorialize what was happening, to find ways of healing from the devastating number of dying patients, and to capture the exhaustion and anxiety of caring for others day after day without respite. By publishing this selection, the volume editors honor and thank all those who have been caring for patients, teaching and mentoring students, and as such have been contributing to our understanding and awareness of this crisis.
Previously published in Journal of Medical Humanities, Volume 42, issue 1, March 2021
Chapters “COVID-19, Contagion, and Vaccine Optimism”, “Virile Infertile Men, and Other Representations of In/Fertile Hegemonic Masculinity in Fiction Television Series”, “Movement as Method: Some Existential and Epistemological Reflections on Dance in the Health Humanities” and “The Ethic of Responsibility: Max Weber’s Verstehen and Shared Decision-Making in Patient-Centred Care” are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Author(s): Therese Jones, Kathleen Pachucki
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 202
City: Cham
Contents
The COVID Pandemic: Selected Work
Planetary Health Humanities—Responding to COVID Times
Abstract
Introduction
Planetary health
Health humanities
Planetary health humanities
Conclusion
References
Placing the Blame: What If “They” REALLY Are Responsible?
Abstract
Setting the problem
The complexity of accuracy in imagined communities
The Ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities
China and the Chinese
Endnotes
References
COVID-19, Contagion, and Vaccine Optimism
Abstract
References
Sinophobic Epidemics in America: Historical Discontinuity in Disease-related Yellow Peril Imaginaries of the Past and Present
Abstract
Introduction
Sinophobia in the classical period: 19th- and 20th-century Yellow Peril
The classical imagination of Chinese response to infectious disease
Sinophobia in the contemporary period: 21st-century racialization of SARS and COVID-19
The contemporary imagination of the Chinese response to infectious disease
Conclusion
References
Letting Go of Familiar Narratives as Tragic Optimism in the Era of COVID-19
Abstract
Introduction
Isolation and trauma
Pandemics, privilege, and other failures of imagination
Trauma, perspective, and privilege
This is not how the apocalypse is supposed to work
Trauma and the case for “tragic optimism”
Endnotes
References
Masks in Medicine: Metaphors and Morality
Abstract
References
Reading for Pandemic: Viral Modernism by Elizabeth Outka, New York: Columbia University Press, 2020
References
The Health Humanities and Camus’s the Plague, Edited by Woods Nash, Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2019
Reference
Love in the Time of COVID
Inflorescence of Mistrust
“A Sick Child is Always the Mother’s Property”: The Jane Austen Pediatric Trauma Management Protocol
Abstract
References
Beside Oneself with Rage: The Doubled Self as Metaphor in a Narrative of Brain Injury with Emotional Dysregulation
Abstract
The problem of post-brain-injury anger
Metaphorical conceptualizations of anger
Three cases of the self doubled in anger: The Stranger, Mr. Hyde, and the Hulk
Discussion
References
Virile Infertile Men, and Other Representations of In/Fertile Hegemonic Masculinity in Fiction Television Series
Abstract
Introduction
The significance of male infertility representations
Theoretical framework: hegemonic masculinity
Methods: researching representations of in/fertile masculinity
Results: four representations of in/fertile men
The virile in/fertile man
The secretly non-/vasectomized man
The intellectual eunuch
The enslaving post-apocalyptic man
Discussion: diversifying representations of in/fertile men
References
Movement as Method: Some Existential and Epistemological Reflections on Dance in the Health Humanities
Abstract
Introduction
What are the health humanities?
Dancing beyond dualism
Some reflections on dance as healing: existential tethering
The moving self
Attunement
Some reflections on dance as knowing: epistemological untethering
The beyond-rational knower
Dance as coming to know and as knowing-with
Concluding thoughts: dance, holism and humanity
References
The Ethic of Responsibility: Max Weber’s Verstehen and Shared Decision-Making in Patient-Centred Care
Abstract
Decision-making in medicine: the conflict between EBM and PCC
Rationalization and medicine: formal and substantive reasoning
Medical ethics and political sociology
Verstehen as the method of the ethic of responsibility
Conclusion
References
When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment by Ryan T Anderson
References
The Poetics and Politics of Alzheimer’s Disease Life-Writing by Martina Zimmermann, London, UK: Palgrave McMillan, 2017
The Art of Death by Edwidge Dandicat, Minnesota: Graywolf Press, 2017
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