German Studies and the Medical/Health Humanities
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Beschreibung
In December 2023, we organized the annual GSAI conference hosted at Trinity
College Dublin (TCD) by Professor Jürgen Barkoff and Professor Mary Cosgrove
(TCD) and thematically coordinated by the GSAI Co-Chairs Dr Michaela Schrage-
Früh (UL) and Dr Linda Shortt (MU). We selected the theme for our conference
– German Studies and the Health/Medical Humanities – to address recent developments
in the field. Originally, the term ‘medical humanities’ referred to the integration
of the humanities in medical programmes with the aim of forging ‘humanist’,
i.e. ethically-minded, health and medical practitioners. Fiction in particular was
thought to have the power to elicit empathy and improve doctor-patient relations.
This one-directional approach, however, has shifted in recent years as the humanities
have increasingly embraced insights from the disciplines of health and medical
science and researchers in the humanities have begun to explore cultural representations
of mental and physical health, emotion, trauma, illness, disability, care and
ageing in genres such as literature, film, life writing and visual and performance
art. The importance of exploring the intersections of health and culture has been
compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has revealed “the determinants of
health and structural health inequities”. As Jane McNaughton notes:
Medical humanities has tended first and foremost to be associated with the ways
in which the arts and humanities help us to understand health. However, this is
not the only or necessarily the primary aim of our field. What the COVID-19
pandemic has revealed above all is what the field of critical medical humanities
has insisted on: the deep entanglement of social, cultural, historical life with
the biomedical.
Autor*in
JESS BENBOW
Themen in »German Studies and the Medical/Health Humanities«
Literarisierung medizinischer Fallstudien Georg Büchner Distractions in Sickness and in Health Thomas Bernhard Wilhelm Genazino Sexual Violence and Trauma Baran bo Odar Violent Feelings Anna Rabe Paragraph 218 Ageing Cultural Gerontology Scriptotherapeutic Potential of Metaphor Use Autoethnographic Narratives