1. Undiagnosed
2. Introduction: Missing Words, or Not Otherwise Specified
Reflection 1: 342 Green
3. Chapter 1: Medical/Disabled, Different/Same
Reflection 2: Sunday in the Park with Lucas
4. Chapter 2: Disability Minds Medicine Health
Reflection 3: Straps
5. Chapter 3: Medicine Bodies Health Disability
Reflection 4: Outside the Frame
6. Conclusion: Agile
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This book looks at the relationship between two of the new critical fields at the cutting edge of innovative interdisciplinary work in the arts and humanities: medical humanities and disability studies.
Stuart Murray is Professor of Contemporary Literatures and Film in the School of English at the University of Leeds, UK.
Written lyrically and with brilliant clarity across multiple
genres, this book continually invites new possibilities, “provoking
to clarify.” I am aware of no other book that sustains an inquiry
into the relationship between medical humanities and disability
studies—much less one that uses the conjunctions and disjunctions
between them to critique both disciplines.
*Martha Stoddard Holmes, Professor of Literature and Writing
Studies, California State University, USA*
Sharp and on target, Stuart Murray offers readers a foray into the
intersections of the medical humanities and disability studies,
their lacunae, and possibilities. Murray draws on memoir and
personal experience to demonstrate how an “indisciplined” approach
to life writing provokes potentials for change through an appeal to
“agility” in our conceptions of ill-health, disability, and
disorder and their roles in medicine, care, and social theory.
Compelling and compulsive in its argumentation—Medical Humanities
and Disability Studies is the kind of book we need more of. We
should all be so indisciplined!
*Matthew Wolf-Meyer, author of 'Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in
a Neurodiverse Age' and 'The Slumbering Masses: Sleep, Medicine and
American Everyday Life'*
Medical Humanities and Disability Studies argues against insularity
and choosing sides in favour of an agile, indisciplined mode of
criticism that embraces generative doubt and productive troubling.
With a variety of women’s life narratives as its strong foundation,
and richly affective personal vignettes as its spine, Stuart
Murray’s book is packed with insights and provocations: from the
agile chapter titles and paths taken to find the words and form for
his work, to the manifold manifestations of difference/same in
experiences of health and disability, and the
“in/un/ill-disciplined” acts of drawing on the working methods of
one discipline to critique the success of the other. In modelling
the intellectual and creative agility found within its archive,
this book offers a sensitive and compelling exploration of the
fusions of life stories and critical frames and of the complex
interweavings of medical humanities and disability studies.
*Stella Bolaki, Reader in American Literature and Medical
Humanities and Co-Director, Centre for Health and Medical
Humanities, University of Kent, UK*
By turns forceful and tender, indisciplined and agile, this book
embodies what it might mean to think with and between Disability
Studies and Medical Humanities. Holding to the conceptual
complexity and political force of lived experience, this is a
vital, unsettling, beautiful book.
*Laura Salisbury, Professor of Modern Literature and Medical
Humanities, University of Exeter, UK*
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