Medical Caregiving Narratives of the First World War: Geographies of Care
This book offers a novel critical intervention in medical humanities, foregrounding the importance of spaces and senses in medical experiences. It explores the distinctive experience and literary representations of somatic and sensuous geographies in First World War medical caregiving life writing. It demonstrates the complex situation of the medic, who is vulnerable both vicariously and directly to the effects of physical and psychological harm. Chapters look at the medic’s relationship with the war environment; the spaces in which medical care takes place; bodies and the wounds of patients in medical narratives; and psychological and imaginative landscapes and textual spaces where complex emotions, trauma, coping and survival are examined.

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Medical Caregiving Narratives of the First World War: Geographies of Care
This book offers a novel critical intervention in medical humanities, foregrounding the importance of spaces and senses in medical experiences. It explores the distinctive experience and literary representations of somatic and sensuous geographies in First World War medical caregiving life writing. It demonstrates the complex situation of the medic, who is vulnerable both vicariously and directly to the effects of physical and psychological harm. Chapters look at the medic’s relationship with the war environment; the spaces in which medical care takes place; bodies and the wounds of patients in medical narratives; and psychological and imaginative landscapes and textual spaces where complex emotions, trauma, coping and survival are examined.

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Medical Caregiving Narratives of the First World War: Geographies of Care

Medical Caregiving Narratives of the First World War: Geographies of Care

by Marie Allitt
Medical Caregiving Narratives of the First World War: Geographies of Care

Medical Caregiving Narratives of the First World War: Geographies of Care

by Marie Allitt

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This book offers a novel critical intervention in medical humanities, foregrounding the importance of spaces and senses in medical experiences. It explores the distinctive experience and literary representations of somatic and sensuous geographies in First World War medical caregiving life writing. It demonstrates the complex situation of the medic, who is vulnerable both vicariously and directly to the effects of physical and psychological harm. Chapters look at the medic’s relationship with the war environment; the spaces in which medical care takes place; bodies and the wounds of patients in medical narratives; and psychological and imaginative landscapes and textual spaces where complex emotions, trauma, coping and survival are examined.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781474489935
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication date: 02/01/2025
Pages: 264
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Marie Allitt is an Early Career Teaching and Research Fellow in Twentieth Century Literature at the University of Edinburgh, specialising in literary medical humanities and modern and contemporary medical life writing. Her research focuses on lived experience of trauma, chronic illness, and caregiving, with particular emphasis on spaces, environments, and architectures of health/care. Her work appears in the BMJ Medical Humanities (2022), and in the edited collections Diagnosing History (2022) and Re/Imagining Depression: Creative Approaches to ‘Feeling Bad’ (2021).

Table of Contents

List of Figures
Acknowledgements


Introduction
1. Corpography: Reconceptualising Somatic Geographies
2. Layering: Appropriating Medical Spaces
3. Protrusions, Openings, and Depths: A Medical Grotesque
4. Countering: Representing Coping Strategies
5. Surfaces: Articulating Pain and Trauma
Conclusion

Bibliography
Index

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