04977namaa2200829uu 4500 oapen101153 oapen 20251217011844.0 a||||fo|||||||||0| cr|mn|---annan 250502s2025a||||fo|||||||||0|eng d 9781032660141 9781032660158 10.4324/9781032660165 doi oapen oapen eng dc J thema JB thema JBS thema JBSF thema JBSF1 thema JH thema JHB thema Q thema QD thema QDH thema QDHR thema Cenedese, Marta-Laura edt Violence, Care, Cure Self/perceptions within the Medical Encounter London Taylor & Francis Routledge [Imprint] 2025 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Routledge Research in Gender and Society Free-to-read Unrestricted online access star This book explores the notions of violence, care, and cure within the medical encounter and seeks to foreground the ways in which, whether individually or as a triad, they are prone to ambiguous interpretations. The chapters of this book attend to the complex interlacing of these three key terms and what to make of their entanglement by offering historical, practical, philosophical, personal, and aesthetic analyses of different medical scenes, objects, and concepts. Besides the three main concepts that give the collection its title, the volume deals with bodily experience, medical neglect or scepticism, pain and suffering, diagnosis and recovery, and epistemic injustice, through the lens of, among others, biopolitics, ethics, gender medicine, and critical medical humanities. Altogether, the chapters pay particular attention to the role of images and other narratives, including social media platforms. The case studies in this collection invite the reader to observe medical encounters that take place in and are shaped by a variety of both material and 'immaterial' spaces, from the consulting room to the antechamber of medical bureaucracy, and from artistic venues to biopolitical discourses. Taken together, this book argues that a hermeneutic of violence, care, and cure is inseparable from individual and collective perceptions of the medical encounter; that is, it is inextricable from an understanding of the tensions and consensus that surge among perceptions orchestrated by both internal (subjective) and external (social, cultural, political) 'gazes'. Moreover, the volume aims to provide, both directly and indirectly, a meta‑eflection on the disciplines that fall under the umbrella of 'medical and health humanities', interrogating the field's potential to unearth systemic bias, to open different possibilities of existence, and to make visible the complexity of its research objects, as well as to caution against their possible pitfalls. By bringing together different methodological approaches, this volume provides its readers with conceptual resources for thinking about the intersections of violence, care, and cure. By providing a space where the voices of both emerging and established scholars mingle and respond to one another, this book will be essential reading for anyone across the social sciences and humanities interested in the sociology of health and medicine, the medical humanities, and gender studies. Open licence https://oapen.org/article/rights eng Gender studies, gender groups thema Gender studies: women and girls thema Philosophical traditions and schools of thought thema Philosophy and Religion thema Philosophy thema Social groups, communities and identities thema Society and culture: general thema Society and Social Sciences thema Sociology and anthropology thema Sociology thema Western philosophy from c 1800 thema aggression biopolitics care case studies critical theory cure gender studies literature marginalised marginalized medical encounter medical humanities minorities minority spaces violence Cenedese, Marta-Laura aut Nicastro, Clio aut OAPEN Library. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101153 Free-to-read: OAPEN Library/DOAB: description of the publication 0 36755 36755