Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physicians and the soul : medicine and spirituality in seventeenth-century England / Michelle Pfeffer -- Hearing differently : medical, modern and medieval approaches to sound / Bonnie Millar -- Sensing the self in the wandering mind / Hazel Morrison -- Soul searching : psychiatry's influence on selfhood / Patrick Seniuk -- Evidence-based medicine, the placebo effect, and performativity in healing / Hannah Lesshafft -- Voices in medicine : ethics, human rights, and medical experimentation / Jennifer Greenwood -- The cost of efficiency in Great War nursing literature / M. Renee Benham -- Negotiating wonders : medical-triggered redefinitions of humanity in popular fiction / Anna Gasperini -- The ideal and the real : art, anatomy, and human distinctiveness / Corinna Wagner -- Medical imaging and the intrusive gaze / Catherine Jenkins -- The fairytale narratives of plastic surgery makeover TV shows in South Korea : surgical metamorphosis, the "surgical gaze", and the permeability of medical knowledge / Carmen Voinea -- John-o is interested in cutting up whatever he finds at the limits of life : monstrous anatomies and the production of the human body in Alasdair Gray's Poor things and Hilary Mantel's The giant, O'Brien / Kathryn Bird -- In Lady Delacour's shadow : women patients and breast cancer in short fiction / April Patrick -- My lawful wife and mistress : a physician's perspective / Uzo Dibia -- A humanistic perspective on the healing power of language at the end of life : restoration of the self through words and silence / Andrea Rodríguez-Prat and Xavier Escribano.