Intro
Introduction
A Course in Medical Humanities in Padua
Medical Humanities
The Book
Contents
Chapter 1: The Medical Humanities
1 ``Humanitas ́́and Its Variants: A Family of Meanings
``Humanization?́́ No Thanks!
Applying Medicine in the Wake of Humanism
Medicine as a ``Humanitarian ́́Activity
Humanity/Inhumanity: When Medicine Is Result-Oriented
Health Practitioners ́``Humanity ́́
2 The ``Medical Humanities ́́in Practice
The Integration of the ``Two Cultures ́́
From the Culture of Rights to the ``Empowerment ́́of the Citizen

Beyond ``Bellettristic:́́ The Arts as Interlocutors
References
Chapter 2: Clinical Ethics in the Context of Medical Humanities
1 Introduction
2 The Crisis in Medicine and in Bioethics
3 Medical Humanities and the Concept of Acknowledgment
4 Clinical Ethics Consultation: A Possible Common Point
5 What Kind of Specific Training? An Italian Experience
6 Conclusions
Bibliography
Chapter 3: Perspectives on ``Mediterranean Bioethics ́́
1 Introduction
2 Why a ``Mediterranean Bioethics?́́
3 The Future Perspective on ``Mediterranean Bioethics ́́
Bibliography

Chapter 4: Medical Liability: Two Historical Cases from Padua
1 Introduction
2 Case I: The Doctor-Patient Relationship between ``Ethics ́́and ``Cunning ́́- Gabriele Zerbi
3 Case II: The Cynical Doctor
Alessandro Knips Macoppe
4 Conclusions
References
Chapter 5: Medical Issues in Italian Frescoes
1 Introduction
How Can We Use Italian Frescoes in Medical Humanities?
2 (Medical) Humanity Through Italian Frescoes
3 Anatomical Knowledge and Italian Frescoes
4 Medical Diagnosis Through Italian Frescoes
5 Disability Through Italian Frescoes

6 Epidemics Through Italian Frescoes
Bibliography
Chapter 6: The Sculpted Body: Interferences Between Beauty and Anatomy
1 Introduction
2 Body Representations: The Experience of the Sacred
3 Anatomical Knowledge: Dissection and Relics
4 The Drawing
5 Michelangeloś Legacy
6 Conclusions
Bibliography
Middle Ages
Renaissance
Image and Emotion
Chapter 7: Clinical Narratives: Stories and Ethics in Healthcare
1 Introduction
2 Narratives and Metaphors of Health and Disease, Illness, and Care

3 Between Medicine Based on Scientific Evidence and Medicine That Listens to Stories: The Return of the Humanities in Clinical...
4 Stories Between Moral Imagination and Narrative Identity
5 Stories of Patients and Carers
6 For a Phenomenology of Illness
7 Care Among Moral Life, Existential Dynamics, and Institutional Realities
References
Chapter 8: Viral Pandemics and the Advent of Neo-Renaissance: A Lacanian Reading of Dan Brownś Inferno
1 Introduction
2 Plot Summary
3 Conceptual Framework and Design: The Four Discourses