The Writing Cure

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The Writing Cure is written by Alexandra Lembert-Heidenreich and published by LIT Verlag Münster. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3643904029 (ISBN 10) and 9783643904027 (ISBN 13).

Medicine and literary studies are often thematically aligned, since the former can be understood as an interpretive science. Literary texts across all genres and time periods deal with medical issues that portray illness, patients' suffering/recovering, or doctors at work, thus pointing towards a deep-seated interest in the human condition. Enveloping the growing interdisciplinary field of medical humanities, this book examines the connections between medicine and fictional/non-fictional literature, from the Early Modern period to the most recent present from literary, medical, and cultural studies perspectives. (Series: Natural Sciences and Humanities in Dialogue / Kultur- und Naturwissenschaften im Dialog - Vol. 2)