The Art is Long

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The Art Is Long: Primary Texts on Medicine and the Humanities gathers introductory texts in the growing field of medical humanities. This unique volume presents a lens with which to examine the intersection of literature and medicine with diverse selections that span time and the globe. With authors from Sushruta to Hippocrates, Margery Kempe to John Donne, and Susie King Taylor to Sigmund Freud, the volume also highlights the voices of women, people of color, and those who have been overlooked or marginalized by the medical establishment.

The Art Is Long aims to expand the medical humanities canon. In addition to more traditional works, readers will find snippets of literary and narrative encounters with medicine by writers who are neither doctors nor nurses, including professional caretakers and people who might be labelled “quacks” today but whose contributions represent a part of medical history.

This anthology also includes medical reportage and philosophy, fiction and nonfiction, image and poetry. The shifts in genre, style, and perspective provide a wealth of opportunities to reflect on medical history and literary techniques, focusing on narratives that highlight a personal context for medical subjects in a single volume.

Sujets

• Médecine
• Médecine Générale
• historical
• Essays
• health
• Medical

Informations

• Publié par: Chemeketa Press
• Date de parution: 27 août 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781943536948
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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The Art is Long
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PRIMARY TEXTS ON MEDICINE AND THE HUMANITIES
Edition 1.0
Edited by Alexis M. Butzner, PhD
The Art is Long: Primary Texts on Medicine and the Humanities
2021 by Alexis M. Butzner
ISBN-13: 978-1-943536-93-1
All rights reserved. Edition 1.0 2021.
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Contents
Introduction: The Long Art
Alexis M. Butzner, PhD
Selections
Sushruta s Compendium (Sushruta Samhita)
Sushruta
The History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
The Hippocratic Corpus
Various Authors
On the Nature of Things (De rerum natura)
Lucretius
Letters to Lucilius on Sickness and Death
Seneca
On the Natural Faculties (De naturalibus facultatibus)
Galen
A Treatise of the Small-Pox and Measles (Kitab al-Judari wa al-Hasbah)
Rhazes [Ab Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakar y R z ]
Causes and Cures (Causae et curae)
Hildegard von Bingen
The Salernitan Regimen of Health (Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum)
Unknown
On Wounds and Fractures
Guy de Chauliac
The Book of Margery Kempe
Margery Kempe
Syphilis: or, the French Disease (Syphilis sive morbus gallicus)
Girolamo Fracastoro
The Castle of Health
Sir Thomas Elyot
The Herbal, or General History of Plants
John Gerard
Seven Defenses (Sieben Defensiones)
Paracelsus
The Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu)
Li Shizhen
A Litany in Time of Plague
Thomas Nashe
A Brief Discourse of a Disease Called the Suffocation of the Mother
Edward Jorden
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
John Donne
Poems on Sickness and Death
John Donne
On the Art of Surgery and Universal Antidotes
Ambroise Par
Theories of Circulation and Reproduction
William Harvey
The Midwives Book
Jane Sharp
On Animalcules
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Upon the Sight of an Anatomy
Nahum Tate
The Sham Doctor
Joseph Addison
On Smallpox Inoculation
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Historical Account of the Smallpox Inoculated in New England
Zabdiel Boylston
After the Small Pox
Mary Jones
Domestic Medicine
William Buchan
On the Dissection of a Body
Anonymous
A Letter to a Lady on the Mode of Conducting Herself during Pregnancy
Sarah Brown
An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variol Vaccin
Edward Jenner
Medical Ethics
Thomas Percival
On Mediate Auscultation
Ren La nnec
Sketches in Bedlam; Or, Characteristic Traits of Insanity
By a Constant Observer
The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave
Mary Prince
To the Siamese Twins
Hannah Flagg Gould
The Masque of the Red Death
Edgar Allan Poe
Lecture on the First Surgical Operations under Ether
Crawford Williamson Long
Notes on Nursing
Florence Nightingale
In Hospital
William Ernest Henley
Selected Poems
Emily Dickinson
Memoirs of a Civil War Nurse
Emily Elizabeth Parsons
American Nervousness: Its Causes and Consequences
George Miller Beard
Specimen Days
Walt Whitman
Notes from Sick Rooms
Julia Stephen
A Book of Medical Discourses: In Two Parts
Rebecca Lee Crumpler
Neurasthenia
Agnes Mary Frances Robinson
The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Books and Men
William Osler
On Psychosexual Development
Sigmund Freud
Selected Works
Ohiyesa/Charles Alexander Eastman
Out, Out-
Robert Frost
On the Asylum Road
Charlotte Mary Mew
Mental Cases
Wilfred Owen
The Repression of War Experience
W. H. R. Rivers
The Repression of War Experience
Siegfried Sassoon
A Country Doctor
Franz Kafka
Complaint
William Carlos Williams
WPA Ex-Slaves Narrative Project
Federal Writers Project
Themes
MANUS DEI: FAITH AND MEDICINE
Sutrasthanam: Sushruta s Compendium
Sushruta
Biblical and Apocryphal Sources
Various authors
Airmed and the Divine Knowledge of Healing Herbs
Unknown
Erra, the Plague God
Unknown
Pythian Odes III-For Hieron of Syracuse
Pindar
WHAT YOU SEE: ASSUMPTION, ANXIETY, AND THE APPEARANCE OF HEALTH
Of a Monstrous Child
Michel de Montaigne
Of Monsters and Prodigies
Ambroise Par
On Reproduction and Generation
Paracelsus
Mary Toft s Extraordinary Delivery
Nathaniel Saint-Andr John Howard
Phrenology: Topographies of the Skull
John Taylor
Vaught s Practical Character Reader
Louis Allen Vaught
The Physiognomy of Insanity
Hugh Welch Diamond John Conolly
LIFE IN TIMES OF PLAGUE: DEPICTING THE BLACK DEATH
The Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio
An Order of the Lords
City of Oxford
Diary of Samuel Pepys
Samuel Pepys
A Journal of the Plague Year
Daniel Defoe
DOING BATTLE: HEALTH AND MEDICINE ON THE FRONT LINES
The Iliad
Homer
Photography from the American Civil War
Various Artists
Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33d United States Colored Troops
Susie King Taylor
The Wound-Dresser
Walt Whitman
Images of World War I
Various Artists
Food Propaganda: Making Nutrition Patriotic
Various Artists
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX
Introduction: The Long Art
ALEXIS M. BUTZNER, PHD
Life is short, the art is long. So begins Aphorisms , a collection of around four hundred briefly stated medical principles attributed to the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, who some consider the father of medicine. The art he refers to here is that of medicine. The sentiment suggests that the art of medicine is ongoing and that learning it takes more time than one short life will allow. This aphorism is often applied beyond medicine, however, to suggest, more simply, that art of all kinds endures beyond the individual lives that craft it. Applied to the collection you now hold in your hands, the aphorism acts as a reminder of both these ideas. The long timeline of the art of medicine, and of the process of learning it, is reflected in artistic products that have been passed along through the centuries.
Critical Backdrop
The works in this collection run the gamut from science to poetry to philosophy to autobiography. Many of the texts may appear difficult and foreign to us now; they contain both important principles and ones that feel laughable, sometimes even horrifying. Nonetheless, they are all worth taking seriously as documents of their own moments in time. The selected works offer a series of earnest attempts to make sense of the human body and condition. They offer stories of how we got to now. Science, medicine, art, literature, philosophy, history: these do not follow an unbroken line of progress. They are fundamentally human endeavors, which means they can be ambitious, and foolhardy, and imprinted with the foibles of their practitioners.
And humanity is a cornerstone of this collection.
This collection aims to trace some of the intellectual history illustrated in works concerned with medicine, health, and sickness. That history includes key moments in medical science and theory, of course, but also requires that we listen to the voices of those who witness, experience, and fear sickness, and those who strive for health. The selections in this volume tend to emphasize the human element. Among these works are stories of discovery, experiment, and invention; notions of what makes a good caretaker or practice; and experiences of or with illness.
In recent decades, the disciplines of medical humanities and health humanities have begun to explore the overlap and interconnection between traditional, science-based approaches to health and other disciplines, such as the arts, literature, philosophy, and music. These fields arose in the late twentieth century in response to increased emphasis on the technological and economic elements of medical study over the human element. Those working in these disciplines identified that the relationship between practitioners and patients was strained by an understanding of science and health that had too narrowly focused on specific body parts and the pathologies that impacted them, rather than on the whole person. Medical and health humanities, then, seek in part to restore a clearer sense of the connections between the scientific and the humane. As a sign of the importance of these connections, medical and health humanities have emerged as a course of study at colleges and universities, with programs at both the undergraduate and graduate level, as well as incorporation into the curriculum for some medical professionals. Renewed interest in these intersections between medicine and culture forms the critical backdrop of this collection.
Inclusion
Medical and health humanities recognize that medicine, and those who practice it, should not be walled off into a fortress of science and technology without reference to and connection with the humans who create and are impacted by that sci