New Directions in Literature and Medicine Studies

1. ​Introduction: Bridging the Divide: Literature and Medicine - Stephanie M. Hilger.- 2. Reading and Writing One’s Way to Wellness: The History of Bibliotherapy and Scriptotherapy - Janella Moy.- 3. Why Teach Literature and Medicine? Answers from Three Decades - Anne Hudson Jones.- 4. Intellectual Cosmopolitanism as Stewardship in Medical Humanities and Undergraduate Writing Pedagogy - Lisa DeTora.- 6. 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 Hellwarth and Ronald Mumme.- 7. Medical Professionalism: Using Literary Narrative to Explore and Evaluate Medical Professionalism - Ronald Schleifer, Jerry Vannatta, and Casey Hester.- 8. Mind, Breath, and Voice in Chaucer’s Romance Writing - Corinne Saunders.- 9. Affect and the Organs in the Anatomical Poems of Paul Celan: Encountering Medical Discourse - Vasiliki Dimoula.- 10. Reading the DSM-5 through Literature: The Value of Subjective Knowing - Christine Marks.- 11.Anecdotal Evidence: What Patient Poets Provide - Marilyn McEntyre.- 12. “L’Œuil Gauche Barré:” Migraine, Scotoma, and Allied Disorders in Emile Zola’s Novels - Janice Zehentbauer.- 13. Corporeal Abnormality as Intellectual and Cultural Capital: Jean Fernel’s Pathologiae Libri, Ambroise Paré’s Monstres et Prodiges, and Michel de Montaigne’s Essais - Yuri Kondratiev.- 14.The Primacy of Touch: Helen Keller’s Embodiment of Language - Sun Jai Kim.- 15. Unsound Elegy: Breast Cancer in The Dying Animal by Philip Roth and Elegy by Isabel Coixet - Federica Frediani. 16. Reading Colonial Dis-ease/Disease in Hong Kong Modernist Fiction - C.T. Au.- 17. Anandibai Joshi’s Passage to America (and More): The Making of a Hindu Lady Doctor - Sandhya Shetty.- 18. The Introduction of Moxibustion and Acupuncture in Europe from the Early Modern Period to the Nineteenth Century - Giovanni Borriello.- 19. Midwives and Spin Doctors: The Rhetoric of Authority in Early Modern French Medicine - Ophelie Chavaroche.- 20. The Changing Face of Quack Doctors: Satirizing Mountebanks and Physicians in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century England - Genice Ngg.- 21. Medical Tourism in Victorian Edinburgh: Writing Narratives of Healthy Citizenship - Martin Willis.- 22. Doctor-Writers: Anton Chekhov’s Medical Stories - Carl Fisher.- 23. Mikhail Berman-Tsikinovsky’s Medical Plays: Chekhov in Chicago - Maria Pia Pagani. <p></p>