Definitions
“an inter- and multidisciplinary field that explore contexts, experiences, and crucial and conceptual issues in medicine and health care, while supporting professional identity formation.” (Cole et al)
medical humanities
“_________ as a psychiatric diagnosis has three characteristics: fearful belief that one has a serious organic illness, the absence of objective evidence for such illness, and refusal to accept that the absence of evidence means the absence of illness” (Belling)
hypochondriasis
“Pain – has an Element of ______________” (Dickinson)
Blank
Zora Neale Hurston: “My Most _______________ Jim Crow Experience”
Rana Awdish
Both
Proposed by Paul Crawford, this alternative to the term “medical humanities” seeks to describe “a more inclusive, outward-facing and applied discipline, embracing interdisciplinarity and engaging with the contributions of those marginalized from the medical humanities”
health humanities
Rosenberg notes that this “diagnosis” was removed from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual in the 1970s
homosexuality
“The fear of ____________ is often the beginning of oppression” (Siebers)
pain
Arthur Frank: “Being a Good ______________”
Story
Anatole Broyard
Patient
Proposed by Sarah Atkinson et. al, this alternative to the term “medical humanities” seeks to challenge the power associated with “the medical” and grapples with the phenomenon of “medicalization”
critical medical humanities
Susan Sontag explores the meanings of this common 19th century diagnosis, known as the “romantic disease”
“My point is that illness is not a ____________” (Sontag)
metaphor
S. Lochlann Jain: “Living in ____________________”
Prognosis
The narrator of A History of Present Illness
Both
Defined by Rita Charon as “medicine practiced with the narrative competencies to recognize, absorb, interpret, and be moved by the stories of illness”
narrative medicine
Initially, Rana Awdish is diagnosed with this syndrome, a pregnancy complication typically appearing in the third trimester.
HELLP Syndrome
“___________ isn’t just remembering to say that must be really hard – it’s figuring out how to bring difficulty into the light so that it can be seen at all” (Jamison)
Empathy
Catherine Belling: “Hypochondriac ___________________”
Hermeneutics
Bettina Judd
As a revision to Charon’s concept of “narrative competency,” Sayantani DasGupta proposes narrative _____________ to describe an approach to narrative that involves “understanding that stories are not merely receptacles of facts, but that every story holds some element of the unknowable.”
humility
The standardized patient that Leslie Jamison plays experiences seizures due to this disorder, a psychiatric diagnosis (“The Empathy Exams”).
conversion disorder
“Disease can be reduced to biochemistry, whereas __________ involves a biography, a reflective consciousness, multiple relationships, and institutions” (Frank)
illness
Pasco et. al.: “_______________ Medicine: Speculative Fiction, Racial Justice and Octavia Butler’s Bloodchild”
Visionary
Rebecca Crumpler
Doctor