Douglas Robinson

Translationality

Essays in the Translational-Medical Humanities

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Produktbeschreibung

This book weaves a number of sub- and interdisciplinary interests through Medical Humanities, and consists of three essays focusing on the traditional medicine-in-literature aspect, history-of-medicine aspect before moving into literary history, translation history and theory, and finally on the neuroscience of translational hermeneutics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9780367410735
• ISBN-10: 0367410737
• Artikelnr.: 58111691

Autorenporträt

Douglas Robinson is Chair Professor of English at Hong Kong Baptist University, and most recently authored Critical Translation Studies (Routledge).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface0.1 Translationality
0.2 Medical humanities
0.3 Translational-medical humanities
0.4 Acknowledgments
Essay 1 The medical humanities: the creation of the (un)real as fiction
1.1 Capgras fictions 1: The Echo Maker
1.2 Capgras fictions 2: simulacra in Baudrillard and humanistic
applications
1.3 Capgras fictions 3: back to The Echo Maker
1.4 Conclusion: icosis
Essay 2 The translational humanities of medicine: literary history as
performed translationality 2.1 Translationality vs. cloning
2.2 Translations of medicine as/in literature
2.3 Rethinking translationality
2.4 Conclusion: icosis again
Essay 3 The medical humanities of translation: the social neuroscience of
hermeneutics 3.1 Neurocognitive translation studies
3.2 The social neuroscience of hermeneutics
3.3 Translation as foreignization, estrangement, and alienation
3.4 Chinese philosophy
3.5 The icosis/ecosis of hermeneutics
Conclusion: the humanities of translational medicine: the performative
phenomenology of (self)care