...George J. Annas Health care insurance reform and medical research in the United States have been driven by metaphor and narrative. Obama's year-long reform effort effectively used the narrative of social progress (and the compelling stories of his dying mother and grandmother and their bitter...

...Nancy Um This article brings together the trade records of the Dutch and English East India Companies' merchants, chronicles in Arabic, and a published French travel narrative to shed light on an overlooked phenomenon, that of early modern medical diplomacy to Qasimi Yemen during the early...

...Michael Hanne Claims for the fundamental role of narrative and of metaphor as cognitive instruments have been taken up by scholars in a wide range of disciplines, but with little communication between the champions of the two perspectives. In the medical context, the narrative medicine movement has...

... audiences? Has the development of transgender self writing been hindered by the unique concern about using the “correct” language required by clinicians to receive medical treatment? Most importantly, how does the issue of “passing”—living convincingly enough in a target gender that one is not effectively...

... inability to conceive its magnitude. Similarly, by relying on the fantastic power of vision he found in paintings and photographs, Jean-Martin Charcot developed into medical knowledge the gothic sublime, which also aided the detective protagonists of sensation novels. Working to extend this tradition, Woolf...

...Catherine Belling We do not have direct, real-time visual access to the entities and events inside living human bodies. Despite the increasingly precise apparent access facilitated by medical-imaging technology, we still rely, finally, on representational and discursive tools in order to visualize...

... street culture. The novel's heroine, the queen Divine, recalls the theories of embodiment outlined in the case study narratives. Ultimately, the “New Woman” demonstrates that sexology provides the narrative template for the twentieth-century medical diagnostic for transsexuality. From the early twentieth...

... of Oklahoma 2011 Works Cited Abramovitch Henry Schwartz Eliezer . 1996 . “Three Stages of Medical Dialogue.” Theoretical Medicine 17 ( 2 ): 175 – 87 . Bakhtin Mikhail . 1981 . “Discourse in the Novel.” In The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays , edited by Holquist...

... birth and death. These two genres, filled with metaphors, frequently recount touching moments of encounter with the humanity of medicine. These metaphors, often in the form of epigrams or proverbs, reflect the middle, the long passage of life carried on beyond medical...

..., Health, Healing, and Wholeness: Explore Some Elusive Concepts.” Journal of Medical Ethics: Medical Humanities 26 : 9 – 17 . Brody Howard . 2003 . Stories of Sickness . 2nd ed. New York : Oxford University Press . Broyard Anatole . 1992 . Intoxicated by My Illness . New...

... Cited Atwood Margaret . 1991 . “Hairball.” In Wilderness Tips , 39 – 56 . New York : Doubleday . Brody Howard . 1994 . “ ‘My Story Is Broken; Can You Help Me Fix It?’: Medical Ethics and the Joint Construction of Narrative.” Literature and Medicine 13 ( 1 ): 79 – 92...

... tenuous, or merely analogical, take the case of nostalgia. Nostalgia—not, in its original medical formulation, a longing for an idealized past, but a longing for home—serves as Goodman's crucial linchpin: a “pathology of motion in both of the two senses of that genitive phrase at once,” nostalgia...

... doctor and patient. © 2011 by University of Oklahoma 2011 “Why Is Any of This Important to Me Anyway Some Thoughts from a Doctor-Poet GLENN COLQUHOUN, FAMILY DOCTOR, KAPITI COAST, NEW ZEALAND I started writing poems about medicine because I kept getting stuck as a medical student...

... of action and experience, an expression of I would like to acknowledge generous grant support from the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute of Child Health and Development, the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research (RO1HDO38878), and Maternal and Child Health...

... to the dominant medical discourse in the same way. The most frequent token for both women and men bloggers was, as might be expected, 'cancer.' Examining tokens that occur most frequently precede this term, we find a list of modifiers that distinguish particular types of cancer, distributed between male...

....” Psychotherapy 26 : 372 – 79 . Barker Philip . 2000 . “Working with the Metaphor of Life and Death.” Journal of Medical Ethics 26 ( 6 ): 97 – 102 . Duran Eduardo . 2007a . Personal communication to author . ———. 2007b . “Healing the Soul Wound: Native American Psychology...

... . “Exploring Health.” In Theory and Research in Promoting Public Health , edited by Earle Sarah Lloyd Cathy Sidell Moyra Spurr Sue , 37 – 65 . London : Sage . Engel George L. 1977 . “The Need for a New Medical Model: A Challenge for Biomedicine.” Science 196 ( 4286...

...)POSSIBLE WORLDS 115 when the bachelors instead bring forth what Stephen Soud calls "a darkly comic catalog of human and medical abnormalities" (198). From the perspective of the dyadic worlds of "Oxen of the Sun" this passage can be seen to reflect both a growing "modern" fascination...

... to be indulged, particularly when other forms of sexual colonization can be enacted at home. As Prentice instigates his seduction/rape qua medical/psychiatric examina- tion on Geraldine, he requires her to disrobe, only to be interrupted in the process by Mrs Prentice. The spouses, here...

... opioid-using characters, communities in crisis, a ravaged nation, end up where they are? More often than not, however, the causalities that the new opioid novel narrates aren't as tidy as those offered by medical researchers (molecular pathways and genetic predispositions), social scientists...