超越无知：健康人文学科的交叉性见解

Beyond nescience: the intersectional insights of health humanities.

作者信息

Squier Susan Merrill

机构信息

Department of English, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.

出版信息

Perspect Biol Med. 2007 Summer;50(3):334-47. doi: 10.1353/pbm.2007.0039.

DOI:10.1353/pbm.2007.0039

PMID:17660629

Abstract

Through a comparison of two graphic novels concerned with the experience of cancer diagnosis and treatment, Brian Fies's Mom's Cancer (2006) and Harvey Pekar and Joyce Brabner's Our Cancer Year (1994), this essay suggests some of the strengths and limitations of the medical humanities in responding to the experience of illness. It demonstrates how the graphic medium enables us to generate a new set of reading strategies and thus to articulate a more complex and powerful analysis of illness, disability, medicine, and health. Finally, the essay considers the question raised by the comparison of the graphic novels: whether the term "health humanities" might not be preferable to its predecessor, "medical humanities."

摘要

通过比较两部关于癌症诊断与治疗经历的图像小说，即布莱恩·菲斯的《妈妈的癌症》（2006年）和哈维·佩卡尔与乔伊斯·布拉布纳的《我们的癌症年》（1994年），本文指出了医学人文学科在回应疾病经历方面的一些优势与局限。它展示了图像媒介如何使我们生成一套新的阅读策略，从而对疾病、残疾、医学和健康进行更复杂、有力的分析。最后，本文思考了图像小说比较所引发的问题：“健康人文学科”这一术语是否可能比其前身“医学人文学科”更可取。