Violence, Care, Cure

Marta-Laura Cenedese is a researcher in the School of History, Culture and Arts Studies at the University of Turku, Finland and associate researcher at the Centre Marc Bloch Berlin, Germany. She is the editor of Written on the Body: Narrative (Re)constructions of Violence(s) and the author of Irène Némirovsky’s Russian Influences: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Chekhov. Clio Nicastro is VolkswagenStiftung Fellow at ICI Berlin and an adjunct faculty member in Cultural Theory at Bard College Berlin, Germany. She is the co-editor of Over and Over and Over Again: Reenactment Strategies in Contemporary Arts and Theory.

1. Introduction Musing 1: Narrative Medicine, Racial Justice and the Black Maternal Mortality Crisis Part 1: Medical Histories and Biopolitics 2. Touching Matters of Care: A Visual Approach to the Care and Violence in Dr Marie Stopes’ Birth Control Campaign 3. Politics in the Time of Cholera: Covid, Table Manners, and Bio-Politics 4. Bio-History: Michel Foucault and the History of Social Medicine Musing 2: Counteracting Psychiatric Violence through Critical Heritage Studies and Co-Operation Part 2: Unsettling and Working Through Practices and Languages of Cure 5. Shaking Monoliths: Thinking with Dan Bar-On: Group Dialog as a Possibility to Approach Original National Socialist Writings from the Private Realm 6. (Un)Making the Schizophrenic: Ronald D Laing’s Therapeutic Strategies 7. Against the Psychiatric Gaze: Violence, Militant Madness and Sexual Difference in Alberto Grifi’s Anthropology of Disobedience 8. Violent Non-Reception: The Denied Poetics of Psychiatry and Frantz Fanon’s Poetization of Science Musing 3: Fanon, Epistemic Injustice, and the Colonial Medical Encounter Part 3. Agency in Illness and Ethics of Suffering 9. Narrative Autonomy to the Test of Illness 10. Plumbing the Perpetual Loss of Paradise: Susan Taubes and Sacred Suffering 11. Almodóvar’s Anatomies Musing 4: On Care and Violence Part 4. Anatomy of a Transformation 12. T for Trans: An Outraged Investigation of Non-Binary Medical Transition in Germany 13. I am not my MRI 14. Surprised by the Night: On the Traversal of a Dyasphoric Phantasy 15. Afterword: The Global Collapse of the Humanities and the Success of the Humanities in Professional Settings: A Paradox?