Description
Book SynopsisThis book proposes an integrated and interdisciplinary approach recording and interpreting the human experience of illness, disability, care, and medical intervention. In our age of deeply technologically-driven medicine, it is crucial to re-establish and promote the neglected relationship between medicine and the arts. This textbook contains contributions by scholars in various fields, who offer their qualified insights in order to reflect on illness, medicine, and the role of physicians and nurses. All chapters overcome a reductive conception of a medicine that is only able to biologically explain illness.
All three editors of this book are researchers in Padua, a city that has been described as the cradle of modern medicine. Galileo Galilei taught for eighteen years at the University of Padua and developed the scientific method there. During the same period, Padua was also the “nursery of arts”, as Shakespeare wrote. In fact, Padua developed, especially in the XIV, XV, and XVI centuries, an impressive and unique artistic culture thanks to artists such as Giotto, Donatello and Titian. Finally, the city of Saint Anthony is a place where a religious feeling strongly oriented towards charity is deeply rooted and strictly linking its history to that of its hospital. This textbook is a unique resource for students of medicine, nursing, bioethics, psychology, theology, and history of art.
Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Chapter 1: The Medical Humanities.- Chapter 2: Clinical Ethics in the Context of Medical Humanities.- Chapter 3: Perspectives on "Mediterranean Bioethics".- Chapter 4: Medical Liability: Two Historical Cases from Padua.- Chapter 5: Medical Issues in Italian Frescoes.- Chapter 6: The Sculpted Body: Interferences between Beauty and Anatomy.- Chapter 7: Clinical Narratives. Stories and Ethics in Healthcare.- Chapter 8: Viral pandemics and the advent of a neo-Renaissance. A Lacanian reading of Dan Brown’s Inferno.- Chapter 9: Psychic Life and Things: Architecture, Urbanism, and Pan-diadromous.- Chapter 10: A Narrative Shift for Clinical Bioethics. The role of Cinema.- Chapter 11: The Hunter Gracchus, a Franz Kafka story of death's dehumanization.- Chapter 12: Why not dream? Murano: Glass and Spirit.- Conclusions.
