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Poetry in the Clinic: Towards a Lyrical Medicine

Poetry in the Clinic: Towards a Lyrical Medicine

Bleakley, Alan
Neilson, Shane

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities

Medical ReferencePublic HealthPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 1032047240
ISBN13: 9781032047249
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 31 2021
Pages: 294
Weight: 1.38
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book explores previously unexamined overlaps between the poetic imagination and the medical mind. It shows how appreciation of poetry can help us to engage with medicine in more intense ways based on 'de-familiarising' old habits and bringing poetic forms of 'close reading' to the clinic.

Bleakley and Neilson carry out an extensive critical examination of the well-established practices of narrative medicine to show that non-narrative, lyrical poetry does different kind of work, previously unexamined, such as place eclipsing time. They articulate a groundbreaking 'lyrical medicine' that promotes aesthetic, ethical and political practices as well as noting the often-concealed metaphor cache of biomedicine. Demonstrating that ambiguity is a key resource in both poetry and medicine, the authors anatomise poetic and medical practices as forms of extended and situated cognition, grounded in close readings of singular contexts. They illustrate structural correspondences between poetic diction and clinical thinking, such as use of sound and metaphor.

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