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This book defines ""translationality"" by weaving a number of sub- and interdisciplinary interests through the medical humanities: medicine in literature, the translational history of medical literature, a medical (neuroscience) approach to literary translation and translational hermeneutics, and a humanities (phenomenological/performative) approach to translational medicine. It consists of three long essays: the first on the traditional medicine-in-literature side of the medical humanities, with a close look at a recent novel built around the Capgras delusion and other neurological misidentification disorders; the second beginning with the traditional history-of-medicine side of the medical humanities, but segueing into literary history, translation history, and translation theory; the third on the social neuroscience of translational hermeneutics. The conclusion links the discussion up with a humanistic (performative/phenomenological) take on translational medicine.

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Author:   Douglas Robinson (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138727045

ISBN 10:   1138727040
Pages:   262
Publication Date:   22 May 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface0.1 Translationality 0.2 Medical humanities 0.3 Translational-medical humanities 0.4 Acknowledgments Essay 1 The medical humanities: the creation of the (un)real as fiction 1.1 Capgras fictions 1: The Echo Maker 1.2 Capgras fictions 2: simulacra in Baudrillard and humanistic applications 1.3 Capgras fictions 3: back to The Echo Maker 1.4 Conclusion: icosis Essay 2 The translational humanities of medicine: literary history as performed translationality 2.1 Translationality vs. cloning 2.2 Translations of medicine as/in literature 2.3 Rethinking translationality 2.4 Conclusion: icosis again Essay 3 The medical humanities of translation: the social neuroscience of hermeneutics 3.1 Neurocognitive translation studies 3.2 The social neuroscience of hermeneutics 3.3 Translation as foreignization, estrangement, and alienation 3.4 Chinese philosophy 3.5 The icosis/ecosis of hermeneutics Conclusion: the humanities of translational medicine: the performative phenomenology of (self)care

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Douglas Robinson is Chair Professor of English at Hong Kong Baptist University, and most recently authored Critical Translation Studies (Routledge).

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