Culture and Medicine

Rishi Goyal is Director of the Medicine, Literature and Society major in the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University, USA. Arden Hegele is Lecturer in Discipline in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, USA. She specializes in nineteenth-century British literature and the medical and health humanities. Her books are Romantic Autopsy: Literary Form and Medical Reading (Oxford, 2022) and the anthology Culture and Medicine: Critical Readings in the Health and Medical Humanities (co-edited with Dr. Rishi Goyal) . Hegele’s research in Romanticism has been published in core journals, such as European Romantic Review, Romanticism, The Byron Journal, and Keats-Shelley Journal, and she has also published in Partial Answers, Gender and Education, and Persuasions. Her book reviews are featured in Public Books, Review 19, Studies in Romanticism, Victorian Network, Partial Answers and Avidly. She is a reviewer at British Medical Journal, Prose Studies, and elsewhere. At Columbia, Hegele has taught in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, in the Medical Humanities major, in the Core Curriculum, and in the Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics at Columbia Medical Center. She is co-founding editor (with Dr. Rishi Goyal) of Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal. She directs the Explorations in the Medical Humanities Series at the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities.

Introduction – Rishi Goyal and Arden Hegele

I. Identities/Institutions

Chapter 1 - The Victorian Ethics of Reading Pregnancy in Contemporary Bestselling Fiction
Livia Arndal Woods

Chapter 2 - Postpartum Exhaustion in William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale
Alicia Andrzejewski

Chapter 3 - Medical and Military Transition in Anatomy of a Soldier
Kristina Fleuty

II. Practices

Chapter 4 - On the Record: What Physician Texts Reveal about Physician Identities and the Electronic Health Record
Kamna S. Balhara

Chapter 5 - Mixed Feedback: The Promise of Structural Competence Education
Joshua Franklin
Chapter 6 - From Efficiency to Pain: A History of the Visual Analogue Scale
Gabi Schaffzin

III. Contingencies

Chapter 7 - Toward a Crip Medical Humanities
Travis Chi Wing Lau

Chapter 8 - Tales of the City as Historical Document: HIV/AIDS, Serialization, Urban Landscapes and Sexuality
John A. Carranza

Chapter 9 - The Suffering Caregiver: Pain at the End of Life
Benjamin Gagnon Chainey

IV. Alternatives

Chapter 10 - Against ‘Endochronology’: Hormonal Rebellion and Generic Blending in Confessions of the Fox
Diana Rose Newby

Chapter 11 - Whose Dystopia?
Anna Fenton-Hathaway

Coda
Roanne Kantor