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LOCATION:The Heyman Center\, Second Floor Common Room
DTSTAMP:20210221T32900Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180226T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180226T193000
SUMMARY:House for King and Slave: Patients and Medical Practice in t
 he Medieval Islamic Hospital
DESCRIPTION:As a set of disciplines\, the humanities face the challenge o
 f how to write about embodied experiences that resist easy v
 erbal categorization such as illness\, pain\, and healing. The
  recent emergence of interdisciplinary frameworks such as na
 rrative medicine has offered a set of methodological approac
 hes to address these challenges. Yet conceptualizing a field
  of medical humanities also offers a broader umbrella under 
 which to study the influence of medico-scientific ideas and 
 practices on society.  Whether by incorporating material cu
 lture such as medical artefacts\, performing symptomatic read
 ings of poems and novels\, or excavating the implicit medical
  assumptions underlying auditory cultures\, the approaches th
 at emerge from a historiographical or interpretive framework
  are different from those coming from the physician’s blac
 k bag.\n\nThis lecture series will explore the enigma of how w
 hat we write relates back to the experience of bodies in dif
 ferent stages of health and disease. Our speakers will explo
 re how the medical humanities build on and revise earlier no
 tions of the “medical arts.” At stake are the problems o
 f representation and the interpretation of cultural products
  from the past and present through medical models.
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