Introduction to Medical Humanities: Medicine and the Italian Artistic Heritage

Introduction
A Course in Medical Humanities in Padua
Medical Humanities
The Book
Contents
Chapter 1: The Medical Humanities
1 ``Humanitas´´ and Its Variants: A Family of Meanings
``Humanization´´? No Thanks!
Applying Medicine in the Wake of Humanism
Medicine as a ``Humanitarian´´ Activity
Humanity/Inhumanity: When Medicine Is Result-Oriented
Health Practitioners´ ``Humanity´´
2 The ``Medical Humanities´´ in Practice
The Integration of the ``Two Cultures´´
From the Culture of Rights to the ``Empowerment´´ of the Citizen
Beyond ``Bellettristic´´: The Arts as Interlocutors
References
Chapter 2: Clinical Ethics in the Context of Medical Humanities
1 Introduction
2 The Crisis in Medicine and in Bioethics
3 Medical Humanities and the Concept of Acknowledgment
4 Clinical Ethics Consultation: A Possible Common Point
5 What Kind of Specific Training? An Italian Experience
6 Conclusions
Bibliography
Chapter 3: Perspectives on ``Mediterranean Bioethics´´
1 Introduction
2 Why a ``Mediterranean Bioethics´´?
3 The Future Perspective on ``Mediterranean Bioethics´´
Bibliography
Chapter 4: Medical Liability: Two Historical Cases from Padua
1 Introduction
2 Case I: The Doctor-Patient Relationship between ``Ethics´´ and ``Cunning´´ - Gabriele Zerbi
3 Case II: The Cynical Doctor - Alessandro Knips Macoppe
4 Conclusions
References
Chapter 5: Medical Issues in Italian Frescoes
1 Introduction
How Can We Use Italian Frescoes in Medical Humanities?
2 (Medical) Humanity Through Italian Frescoes
3 Anatomical Knowledge and Italian Frescoes
4 Medical Diagnosis Through Italian Frescoes
5 Disability Through Italian Frescoes
6 Epidemics Through Italian Frescoes
Bibliography
Chapter 6: The Sculpted Body: Interferences Between Beauty and Anatomy
1 Introduction
2 Body Representations: The Experience of the Sacred
3 Anatomical Knowledge: Dissection and Relics
4 The Drawing
5 Michelangelo´s Legacy
6 Conclusions
Bibliography
Middle Ages
Renaissance
Image and Emotion
Chapter 7: Clinical Narratives: Stories and Ethics in Healthcare
1 Introduction
2 Narratives and Metaphors of Health and Disease, Illness, and Care
3 Between Medicine Based on Scientific Evidence and Medicine That Listens to Stories: The Return of the Humanities in Clinical...
4 Stories Between Moral Imagination and Narrative Identity
5 Stories of Patients and Carers
6 For a Phenomenology of Illness
7 Care Among Moral Life, Existential Dynamics, and Institutional Realities
References
Chapter 8: Viral Pandemics and the Advent of Neo-Renaissance: A Lacanian Reading of Dan Brown´s Inferno
1 Introduction
2 Plot Summary
3 Conceptual Framework and Design: The Four Discourses
4 First ``Therapy´´: Awakening the Unworldly Expert (the Mutual Exposure of Past and Present)
5 Second ``Therapy´´: A Craving Prodigy and the Matheme of Desire
6 Third ``Therapy´´: Bertrand Zobrist - Psychopath or Therapist?
7 Fourth ``Therapy´´: The Policy of Denial
8 Resume: Inferno´s Basic Structure in Terms of the Four Discourses
9 The Object a as ``Actor´´
10 Implications for Virology
Bibliography
Chapter 9: Psychic Life and Things: Architecture, Urbanism, and Pan-Diadromous
1 Signs and Signals in the Surroundings
2 Landscape and Temple
3 Prosthetic Objects: Contemplation and Construction
4 Psychiatry and Places of ``Madness´´
5 Architecture and Urban Planning for the Psychic Life
6 Objects, Clothing, Transportation, and Design: Prostheses of Psychic Life with the Emergence of Connectomical Objects
7 Toward Connectomical Landscapes
8 The Connectomical Architecture
Bibliography
Chapter 10: A Narrative Shift for Clinical Bioethics: The Role of Cinema
1 Crisis
2 Shift
3 Risks
Bibliography
Chapter 11: The Hunter Gracchus: A Franz Kafka Story of Death´s Dehumanization
References
Chapter 12: Why Not Dream? Murano: Glass and Spirit
1 Introduction
2 A Bit of History
3 Writing Poetry on Glass
4 Transforming Emotions into a Glasswork
5 Conclusions
Bibliography
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index