Kirk Robert G W, Pemberton Neil, Quick Tom
Centre for the History of Science Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Centre for the History of Science Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
Med Humanit. 2019 Mar;45(1):75-81. doi: 10.1136/medhum-2018-011601.
Being well together, an inaugural Research Forum, will critically examine the myriad ways humans have formed partnerships with non-human species to improve health across time and place. Across the humanities and social sciences, a growing body of scholarship has begun to rethink the prominence of the 'human' in our accounts of the world by exploring the category less as an individualised essence and more as a temporal process of becoming. From this perspective, being human becomes a process of 'becoming with', performed through interactions with non-human others. This paper introduces a diverse collection of studies, originally presented at a workshop held at the University of Manchester in 2018, which explored how emergent approaches within animal studies might productively and playfully engage with the medical humanities. In each case, human health and well-being is shown to rest on the cultivation of relationships with other species. Being well is rethought and remapped as a more than human process of being well together. Collectively, this research forum invites reflection on what the medical humanities might look like from a more than human perspective.
“共同安康”首届研究论坛将批判性地审视人类在不同时间和地点与非人类物种建立伙伴关系以促进健康的多种方式。在人文和社会科学领域，越来越多的学术研究开始通过将“人类”这一类别更少地视为个体化本质，而更多地视为一个逐渐形成的时间过程，来重新思考其在我们对世界的描述中的突出地位。从这个角度来看，成为人类成为一个通过与非人类他者互动来进行的“与……共生”的过程。本文介绍了一系列多样的研究，这些研究最初在2018年于曼彻斯特大学举办的一次研讨会上展示，探讨了动物研究中的新兴方法如何富有成效且有趣地与医学人文相结合。在每种情况下，人类健康和福祉都被证明依赖于与其他物种关系的培育。安康被重新思考和重新界定为一个超越人类的共同安康过程。总体而言，这个研究论坛促使人们思考从超越人类的视角来看医学人文可能会是什么样子。
