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New anthology from Medical Humanities and Ethics Faculty Arden Hegele and Assistant Professor Rishi Goyal
Culture and Medicine: Critical Readings in the Health and Medical Humanities
December 5, 2022
In their new anthology, Culture and Medicine: Critical Readings in the Health and Medical Humanities, Arden Hegele (SOF 2016-2019; Lecturer in the Discipline of English and Comparative Literature) and Rishi Goyal (Board Member 2019–2022; Director of Medical Humanities at ICLS; Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine) engage with the question of how biomedical knowledge is constructed, negotiated, and circulated as a cultural practice. The book features eleven chapters and an afterword by a group of writers who represent disciplines as diverse as early modern literature, medical anthropology, and emergency medicine. (Read on here...)