Literature and Medicine:  A General Survey of Camaraderie

A Dhandapani; R Sumathi; P Sujatha

doi:10.34293/sijash.v12iS1-Apr.8960

A Dhandapani Ph.D., Research Scholar, Department of English (Aided), Kongunadu Arts and Science College (Autonomous), Coimbatore, (Affiliated to Bharathiar University)
R Sumathi Assistant Professor, Department of English (Aided), Kongunadu Arts and Science College, (Autonomous), Coimbatore, (Affiliated to Bharathiar University)
P Sujatha Assistant Professor, Department of English (Aided), Kongunadu Arts and Science College (Autonomous), Coimbatore, (Affiliated to Bharathiar University)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34293/sijash.v12iS1-Apr.8960

Keywords: Literature and Medicine, Medical Narratives, Medical Humanities, Doctor and Patient, Ethicality, Text and Body, Mortality, Madness and Disability, Etc.

Abstract

The faculty of literary inquiry keeps expanding at every moment. It has become unimaginably interdisciplinary. While medical humanities seek literary applications to enhance the humane component in the medical pedagogy and practice, the literary scholarship strives to understand medicine in a light environment through literary works.The narrative framework of these literary works offers various ways of understanding the body in the texts, exploring relationships between the patients and the doctors, the pressures on the physicians known as ‘the doctors’ dilemma,’ ethical principles, therapeutic potential of the language, etc. Hence, there is a great potential in instigating an investigative, research-oriented and pedagogical inquiry into the field of Literature and Medicine.