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November 2024

GERMANISTIK

IN IRELAND

Jahrbuch der / Yearbook of the

Association of Third-Level Teachers

of German in Ireland

Volume 18 / 2024

Ed. Siobhán Donovan, Tina-Kareen Pusse

Special Issue:

German Studies and the

Medical/Health Humanities

1st edition / 1. Auflage 2024, 168 pages/Seiten, € 20,00.

ISBN 978-3-86628-824-9

Search inside: Foreword zu Germanistik in Ireland Vol. 18 (2024)

We selected the theme for our conference – German Studies and the Health/Medical Humanities – to address recent developments in the field. Originally, the term ‘medical humanities’ referred to the integration of the humanities in medical programmes with the aim of forging ‘humanist’, i.e. ethically-minded, health and medical practitioners. Fiction in particular was thought to have the power to elicit empathy and improve doctor-patient relations. This one-directional approach, however, has shifted in recent years as the humanities have increasingly embraced insights from the disciplines of health and medical science and researchers in the humanities have begun to explore cultural representations of mental and physical health, emotion, trauma, illness, disability, care and ageing in genres such as literature, film, life writing and visual and performance art. The importance of exploring the intersections of health and culture has been compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has revealed “the determinants of health and structural health inequities”. As Jane McNaughton notes:

Medical humanities has tended first and foremost to be associated with the ways in which the arts and humanities help us to understand health. However, this is not the only or necessarily the primary aim of our field. What the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed above all is what the field of critical medical humanities has insisted on: the deep entanglement of social, cultural, historical life with the biomedical.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

MICHAELA SCHRAGE-FRÜH, LINDA SHORTT, JAKOB SUMMERER

Introduction

OLIVETTA GENTILIN

Literarisierung medizinischer Fallstudien. Zur Figuren-Charakterisierung

in Georg Büchners Lenz, Woyzeck und in der Komödie Leonce und Lena

THOMAS WILKS

Thomas Bernhard and Wilhelm Genazino.

Distractions in Sickness and in Health

JOHANNES VITH

Landscapes and Nonhuman Witnessing. Sexual Violence and

Trauma in Baran bo Odar’s Das letzte Schweigen (2010)

GILLIAN PYE

Violent Feelings. Tracing emotional regimes

in Anne Rabe’s Die Möglichkeit von Glück

KATHERINE E. CALVERT

Emotional and Medical Interventions in

the 1970s Campaign Against Paragraph 218

MARTINA ZIMMERMANN

Changing How We Think about Ageing. A Narrative Approach

DESMOND O’NEILL

Personal Reflections on Working between Germanistik,

Medical/Health Humanities and Cultural Gerontology

JESS BENBOW, JAKOB SUMMERER

The Scriptotherapeutic Potential of Metaphor Use.

Some Lessons from Eating Disorder Autopathography

RACHEL MagSHAMHRÁIN

Care-Full Academia. From Autoethnographic Narratives

to Political Manifestos for Collective Action

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