Medical Humanities: Diverse Inquiries
Dartmouth College
Goal
To emphasize collaborations between the liberal arts, medical education, and clinical care.
Members
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Irene Kacandes, PhD
Principal Investigator / Contact
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Organizer
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Organizer
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Abigail Neely, PhD
Co-Investigator
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Co-Investigator
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George Trumbull, PhD
Co-Investigator
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Joseph O'Donnell, MD
Co-Investigator
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Kathryn Kirkland, MD
Co-Investigator
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Louise Davies, MD
Co-Investigator
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Mark Williams, PhD
Co-Investigator
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Michael Casey, PhD
Co-Investigator
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Project Summary: Medical Subjects
The participants in this group are exploring the question of the medical “subject,” with particular reference to the ways that aging influences how the ‘subject’ is understood and treated. Within the humanities, recent theoretical work (much of which is influenced by the work of Michel Foucault) understands...
Project Summary: Medical Subjects
The participants in this group are exploring the question of the medical “subject,” with particular reference to the ways that aging influences how the ‘subject’ is understood and treated. Within the humanities, recent theoretical work (much of which is influenced by the work of Michel Foucault) understands the subject as embedded within institutional and discursive regimes in ways that vary from culture to culture and from one era to another. Crucially, these approaches have highlighted the...
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Open Questions: Medical Subjects
How are aging subjects understood by the practices and institutions that are emerging as people live longer and the number of the elderly keeps increasing? What happens to a certain kind of humanistic theory when it is placed in dialogue with those working within the institutions that process subjects on the way toward trying to care for them? How do institutions justify various forms of regulation and coercion in the name of public health (building upon Foucault’s “bio-power”)?