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Parution de l'ouvrage  Illness in context This book is a contribution to humanistic studies of illness. Medical  humanities are by nature cross-disciplinary, and in recent years studies  in this field have been recognized as a platform for dialogue between  the “two cultures” of the natural sciences and the humanities. Illness  in Context is a result of an encounter of several disciplines,  including medicine, history and literature. The main stress is on the  literary perspectives of the interdisciplinary collaboration. The  reading practices highlighting the clinical, phenomenological and  archeological approaches to illness take as their point of departure the  living text, that is, the literary experience mediated and created by  the text. Literature is seen not solely as a medium for the  representation of experiences of illness, but also as a historical  praxis involved in the forging of our common understanding of illness.  In contrast to traditional literary analysis – primarily oriented toward  the interpretation of the literary work’s meaning – the project will  emphasize description and understanding of how literature itself  performs as a means of interpretation of reality. The target group for  this book comprises professionals in the various disciplines, and  students of health and culture. The ambition is to contribute to  teaching in humanistic illness research, and function as a topical  resource book that formulates controversial problems in the crucial  meeting of medicine and the humanities.ContentsKnut  Stene-Johansen and Frederik Tygstrup: Introduction: Illness in ContextClinicDeborah  Kirklin: The Search for Meaning in Modern MedicineJan C. Frich:  Dialogue and Creativity: Narrative in the Clinical EncounterDrude  von der Fehr: Clinical Tales and the Artlike Creativity of the BodyVincent  Colapietro: Signs of IllnessPhenomenologyHélène Cixous:  From The Day I Wasn’t ThereFrederik Tygstrup: The Blue Chair.  A Literary Report on Dementia in AmericaGérard Danou: Henri Michaux  in Search of his Tempo, or Great HealthKnut Stene-Johansen:  Tolstoy and the Making of the InhumanArcheologyAnne Kveim  Lie: Treatment Politics: The Rise of Radesyge Hospitals in NorwayEric  Hamraouï: Metaphors, Figures and Description in Sénac’s Traité de la  structure du coeur, de son action et de ses maladies (1749)Hilde  Bondevik: Who’s Afraid of Amalie Skram? Hysteria and Rebellion in  Amalie Skram’s Novels of Mental HospitalsMette Kia Krabbe Meyer:  Like a high black wave. Jørgen Stein and the Spanish FluJohan  Redin: Pathogenesis: Life, Literature and Animality. Medical Theory and  Biological Nihilism in Eighteenth-Century Thought