Key Concepts in Medical Humanities

This volume offers a critical introduction to the field of Medical Humanities, unpacking the discipline's key concepts and methodologies in a lively, analytical and accessible manner that will benefit students and researchers alike. The book’s chapters address the key concepts of ‘Illness’, ‘Contagion’, ‘Patient’, ‘Feeling’, ‘Neurodiversity’, ‘Disability’, ‘Ageing’, and ‘Death and Dying’. They also focus on the key methodologies of ‘Narrative Medicine’, ‘Graphic Medicine’, ‘Medicine and the Arts’, ‘Medicine in the Postcolony’ and ‘Black Health Humanities’. Written by researchers and academics who teach Medical Humanities, each of the thirteen chapters is enriched by case studies to aid understanding. The book includes a wealth of suggestions for further reading and offers students and researchers from a variety of disciplines an essential overview of the most important work in the field.