Literature and medicine

Question 1

What is literature and medicine?

Answer 1

Refers to the study of medical and health-related issues as they are represented in literature including poetry, fiction, and non-fiction writing from all eras of history

Question 2

What genre is for illness narratives?

Answer 2

Pathographies

Question 3

Rhetoric vs narrative vs literature

Answer 3

rhetoric - persuasion
narrative- dialogical stories
literature- texts

Question 4

What is the authorial intent in rhetoric and narrative medicine vs literature?

Answer 4

rhetoric and narrative- very invested in authorial intent
literature- more invested in reader reception

Question 5

Biopolitics

Answer 5

The notion that human life is governed by dominant systems of knowledge, economics, and government, such that biological experiences aren’t individual but social in nature

Question 6

Queer theory/Critical race theory/Feminist theory

Answer 6

the idea that gender and
sexuality/race and ethnicity/sex and gender in many forms impacts the way
an individual experiences the world around them, including being sick

Question 7

what is the key method in literature and medicine?

Answer 7

Close reading: the identification of patterns, themes, and turns
of phrase in a text that suggest a deeper meaning or significance

Question 8

Cultural studies

Answer 8

investigates the ways in which “culture” creates and transforms individual experiences, everyday life, social relations and power. In the case of literary study, texts are an entry point into analyzing culture, experience, social relations, power, etc.

Question 9

Denotation

Answer 9

The dictionary definition

Question 10

Connotation

Answer 10

The deeper meaning- what we associate with the word.