Overview
For the first time in English, The Russian Medical Humanities: Past and Present argues that the medical humanities is a vibrant and emerging field in Post-Soviet Russia. In a unique collaboration that brings together diverse experts from both Russia and America, this volume showcases the Russian medical humanities as an interdisciplinary project that combines insights from philosophy, bioethics, anthropology, history, and literature in order to provide more compassionate medical care to patients in the twenty-first century. The chapters in this volume explore past and present humanistic trends in Russian medical training, as well as examine how Russian authors and cultural figures, some physician-writers, some without professional background in medicine of any kind, have positioned healthy and ailing bodies in their creative work. This volume’s contributors, who range from literary scholars, educators, translators and poets to medical historians, librarians, museum curators, and social workers, provide empathetic insight into the experience of medical encounters which all cultures grapple with. Their work will prove useful not only to current and future health practitioners, but also to a broader audience of readers who are seeking to make compassionate and informed decisions about healthcare for their loved ones and for themselves.
Full Product Details
Author: Konstantin Starikov ,
Melissa L. Miller ,
Angela Brintlinger ,
Jehanne Gheith
Publisher: Lexington Books
Imprint: Lexington Books
Dimensions:
Width: 16.00cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 22.70cm
Weight: 0.535kg
ISBN: 9781498592154
ISBN 10: 1498592155
Pages: 214
Publication Date: 20 September 2021
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Russian Medical Humanities puts Russian culture on the map of the health humanities, a burgeoning field that is still prominently Anglophone. Contributions by historians, medical school educators, clinical practitioners, literary scholars, and museum curators, from both Russia and the United States, introduce to readers in the West a long and rich cultural tradition of approaching medicine through the lens of the humanities and set it in dialogue with well-established institutional practices in North America. A much-needed collection.--Elena Fratto, author of Medical Storyworlds: Health, Illness, and Bodies in Russian and European Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century The Russian Medical Humanities: Past, Present, and Future charts the emerging field of the Russian medical humanities through its exciting range of interdisciplinary perspectives on the interfacing of medicine and literature in Russia. While the study of the medical humanities has traditionally centered on America and Western Europe, this volume demonstrates conclusively that Russian culture offers a wealth of insight into the medicalized human condition that can greatly enrich the assumptions of Anglophone scholars. Miller and Starikov have complied an impressive roster of contributors that includes Russian medical educators and historians, scholars of Russian literature from both sides of the Atlantic, medical museum curators, a linguist, a librarian, and a hospice social worker in the U.S. Their chapters continually elucidate how the past can inform patient care in the present and in the future, in Russia and around the world, making this volume uniquely relevant for educators and practitioners, as well as scholars.--Alisa Ballard Lin, The Ohio State University With this pioneering volume, Miller and Starikov call us to an important conversation that will have resonance far beyond the field of Russian Studies. The Russian Medical Humanities gives form and coherence to an emerging field of research and introduces the Western reader to a vast set resources for deepening our understanding of medicine and medical practice.--Yuri Corrigan, Boston University
The Russian Medical Humanities gives form and coherence to an emerging field of research while also opening up a tradition of vast resource for our understanding of medical practice. With this pioneering volume, Miller and Starikov call us to a conversation that will have resonance far beyond the field of Russian Studies.--Yuri Corrigan, Boston University Russian Medical Humanities puts Russian culture on the map of the health humanities, a burgeoning field that is still prominently Anglophone. Contributions by historians, medical school educators, clinical practitioners, literary scholars, and museum curators, from both Russia and the United States, introduce to readers in the West a long and rich cultural tradition of approaching medicine through the lens of the humanities and set it in dialogue with well-established institutional practices in North America. A much-needed collection.--Elena Fratto, author of Medical Storyworlds: Health, Illness, and Bodies in Russian and European Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century The Russian Medical Humanities: Past, Present, and Future charts the emerging field of the Russian medical humanities through its exciting range of interdisciplinary perspectives on the interfacing of medicine and literature in Russia. While the study of the medical humanities has traditionally centered on America and Western Europe, this volume demonstrates conclusively that Russian culture offers a wealth of insight into the medicalized human condition that can greatly enrich the assumptions of Anglophone scholars. Miller and Starikov have complied an impressive roster of contributors that includes Russian medical educators and historians, scholars of Russian literature from both sides of the Atlantic, medical museum curators, a linguist, a librarian, and a hospice social worker in the U.S. Their chapters continually elucidate how the past can inform patient care in the present and in the future, in Russia and around the world, making this volume uniquely relevant for educators and practitioners, as well as scholars.--Alisa Ballard Lin, The Ohio State University
Author Information
Melissa Miller is assistant teaching professor and director of undergraduate studies in Russian at the University of Notre Dame. Konstantin Starikov is an independent scholar and librarian.
