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Medical Storyworlds : Health, Illness, and Bodies in Russian and European Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Elena Fratto (2021, Trade Paperback)

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In so doing, she argues, they provide alternative ways of thinking about the limits and possibilities of human agency and free will.

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PublisherColumbia University Press

ISBN-100231202334

ISBN-139780231202336

eBay Product ID (ePID)3050071446

Product Key Features

Number of Pages272 Pages

Publication NameMedical Storyworlds : Health, Illness, and Bodies in Russian and European Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

LanguageEnglish

SubjectModern / 19th Century, Russian & Former Soviet Union, Disease & Health Issues

Publication Year2021

TypeTextbook

AuthorElena Fratto

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Social Science

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.1 in

Item Weight13.5 Oz

Item Length0.9 in

Item Width0.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2021-016642

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsAn original and thought-provoking study . . . Fratto's lively book provides compelling new interpretations of canonical works of Russian literature, and it manages to put the discipline of Slavic Studies into a productive dialogue with contemporary Medical Humanities., This elegant book stages nothing less than a Slavic studies intervention in medical humanities--and vice versa. In the process, Fratto draws myriad revelatory connections between the writings of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Bulgakov, among others, and such present-day concerns as medical ethics, disability, posthumanism, and the Covid-19 pandemic. In short, Medical Storyworlds is a triumph., Scholars of Russian and European literature, theoretically-oriented comparatists, and those working in the medical humanities will find Medical Storyworlds an excellent starting point for rich discussions of narrative and medicine., Fratto's expansive source base, including Russian, French, and Italian texts, along with her command of the theoretical literature, gives us a new platform from which the medical humanities can continue to develop., This elegant book stages nothing less than a Slavic studies intervention in medical humanities--and vice-versa. In the process, Fratto draws myriad revelatory connections between the writings of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Bulgakov, among others, and such present-day concerns as medical ethics, disability, posthumanism, and the Covid-19 pandemic. In short, Medical Storyworlds is a triumph., Fratto's absorbing, timely study will be invaluable for scholars, the general reader, and anyone who is interested not only in Russian and European literatures, but also, in the nuanced ways medical narratives shape human lives, and vice versa., Moving fluidly between modern medicine and Russian literature, Fratto explores a vital question: Who authors medical narratives? Focused on questions of plot and agency, her subtle analyses reveal how physicians develop their ideas about disease, entrepreneurs market meanings of health, and patients assert their voices to narrate their own medical storylines., A significant contribution to the growing field of medical humanities and its applications to Russian literary and cultural studies, Fratto's book makes striking connections between narratives written a century ago and the most pressing concerns in today's medical ethics. Engaging, informative, and inspired., Moving fluidly between modern medicine and Russian literature, Fratto explores a vital question: who authors medical narratives. Focused on questions of plot and agency, her subtle analyses reveal how physicians develop their ideas about disease, entrepreneurs market meanings of health, and patients assert their voices to narrate their own medical storylines., This book will be useful to anyone interested in medical discourse, as well as to students of the medical humanities, a field that reaffirms the need to pay attention to patient narratives, as well as to sickness-related fiction as a whole.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal809.933561

Table Of ContentAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Grand Finale: Death as the Revelatory Ending 2. End of Story: Temporality and the Prospect of the Ending in Ivan Ilych , Anna Karenina , and (Potential) Cancer Patients 3. Medical Enlightenment in the Early 1920s: Rhetoric and Diffused Authorship in Jules Romains's Knock and Soviet Public-Health Campaigns 4. Time, Agency, and Bodily Glands: Metabolic Storytelling in Italo Svevo and Mikhail Bulgakov Afterword Notes Bibliography Index

SynopsisThough often seen as scientific or objective, medicine has a fundamentally narrative aspect. Much like how an author constructs meaning around fictional events, a doctor or patient narrates the course of an illness and treatment. In what ways have literary and medical storytelling intersected with and shaped each other? In Medical Storyworlds , Elena Fratto examines the relationship between literature and medicine at the turn of the twentieth century--a period when novelists were experimenting with narrative form and the modern medical establishment was taking shape. She traces how Russian writers such as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Bulgakov responded to contemporary medical and public health prescriptions, placing them in dialogue with French and Italian authors including Romains and Svevo and such texts as treatises by Paul Broca and Cesare Lombroso. In nuanced readings of these works, Fratto reveals how authors and characters question the rhetoric and authority of medicine and public health in telling stories of mortality, illness, and well-being. In so doing, she argues, they provide alternative ways of thinking about the limits and possibilities of human agency and free will. Bridging the medical humanities, European literary studies, and Slavic studies, Medical Storyworlds shows how narrative theory and canonical literary texts offer a new lens on today's debates in medical ethics and bioethics., Elena Fratto examines the relationship between literature and medicine at the turn of the twentieth century. She traces how writers including Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Bulgakov responded to medical and public health prescriptions, arguing that they provide alternative ways of thinking about the limits and possibilities of human agency and free will.

LC Classification NumberPN56.M38F73 2021