Anne Hunsaker Hawkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 1202247 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne Hunsaker Hawkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne Hunsaker |
| FAMILY NAME | Hawkins |
| SIGNATURE | HAWKINS A H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Medical Humanities and Cultural Studies
The Sick Child
When Deborah and Dale Minter first submitted their materials—her essay and his photographs—I was intrigued by the fact that both were collages of sorts, one verbal and the other visual. I was also struck by the presence of two "voices" in each—the voice of the parent and the voice of the professor (or, in Dale's case, the professional); the voice of experience and the voice of analysis. In order to better explore this phenomenon, I invited two li…
Samantha
Literature and Medicine - Volume 21, Number 1, Spring 2002
Crying
Crying offers a kind of smorgasbord of just about everything known about human tears from the disciplines of anthropology, literature, psychology, philosophy, history, physiology, and biochemistry. Tom Lutz is generous with examples drawn from literature and art--topics that were poorly represented in prior, book-length studies of the subject--and he goes far beyond any of his predecessors in the ease and sophistication with which he presents con…
"Ethical Tragedy and Sophocles' "Philoctetes
Confronting Mortality
This essay explores how death is configured in Homer's Iliad through the androktasia (the formulaic description of the death of a warrior). What Homer emphasizes is the pathos of the bereaved survivor(s); the physical and usually brutal aspects of dying; and, through epic simile, a perspective that places death in a broader and deeper context
Oliver Sack's Awakenings
Oliver Sacks's Awakenings: Reshaping Clinical Discourse Anne Hunsaker Hawkins (bio) The Metaphor of Trajective Discourse "My ideal doctor," wrote the late Anatole Broyard, "would be my Virgil, leading me through my purgatory or inferno, pointing out the sights as we go. He would resemble Oliver Sacks, the neurologist who wrote Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. I can imagine Dr. Sacks entering my condition, looking around at i…
Charting Dante
Charting Dante: The Inferno and Medical Education Anne Hunsaker Hawkins . . . you may need to strain to hear the voice of the patient in the thin reed of his crying —John Stone, "Gaudeamus Igitur: A Valediction"1 In this essay I will discuss some of the remarkable parallels between Dante's Inferno and contemporary medical education. Such a comparison is not simply an academic exercise: its relevance is immediate and practical . Teaching literatur…
Editors' Column
Editors' Column The Art of the Case History is the most focused issue this journal has ever offered. The essayists here analyze one circumscribed aspect of medicine—the conventional narrative act that initiates the formal contact between doctor and patient. But, as the essays make clear, the case history has a complex life of its own that keeps escaping the bounds of convention. The case history is, therefore, a process as much as an object and, …
Constructing Death
Ours is a culture in search of an ars moriendi. Today's popular narratives about illness and dying propose a variety of models for “the good death.” Three such pathographies are discussed as examples. In each, the author organizes the phenomena associated with the illness and death of a spouse from cancer into a coherent pattern and gives them a specific meaning. The result is three very different paradigms of the experience of dying-“ritual deat…
A. R. Luria and the Art of Clinical Biography
A. R. Luria and the Art of Clinical Biography
Constructing Death
Ours is a culture in search of an ars moriendi. Today's popular narratives about illness and dying propose a variety of models for “the good death.” Three such pathographies are discussed as examples. In each, the author organizes the phenomena associated with the illness and death of a spouse from cancer into a coherent pattern and gives them a specific meaning. The result is three very different paradigms of the experience of dying-“ritual deat…
Charting Dante
Charting Dante: The Inferno and Medical Education Anne Hunsaker Hawkins . . . you may need to strain to hear the voice of the patient in the thin reed of his crying —John Stone, "Gaudeamus Igitur: A Valediction"1 In this essay I will discuss some of the remarkable parallels between Dante's Inferno and contemporary medical education. Such a comparison is not simply an academic exercise: its relevance is immediate and practical . Teaching literatur…
Editors' Column
Editors' Column The Art of the Case History is the most focused issue this journal has ever offered. The essayists here analyze one circumscribed aspect of medicine—the conventional narrative act that initiates the formal contact between doctor and patient. But, as the essays make clear, the case history has a complex life of its own that keeps escaping the bounds of convention. The case history is, therefore, a process as much as an object and, …
Oliver Sack's Awakenings
Oliver Sacks's Awakenings: Reshaping Clinical Discourse Anne Hunsaker Hawkins (bio) The Metaphor of Trajective Discourse "My ideal doctor," wrote the late Anatole Broyard, "would be my Virgil, leading me through my purgatory or inferno, pointing out the sights as we go. He would resemble Oliver Sacks, the neurologist who wrote Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. I can imagine Dr. Sacks entering my condition, looking around at i…
Confronting Mortality
This essay explores how death is configured in Homer's Iliad through the androktasia (the formulaic description of the death of a warrior). What Homer emphasizes is the pathos of the bereaved survivor(s); the physical and usually brutal aspects of dying; and, through epic simile, a perspective that places death in a broader and deeper context
"Ethical Tragedy and Sophocles' "Philoctetes
Crying
Crying offers a kind of smorgasbord of just about everything known about human tears from the disciplines of anthropology, literature, psychology, philosophy, history, physiology, and biochemistry. Tom Lutz is generous with examples drawn from literature and art--topics that were poorly represented in prior, book-length studies of the subject--and he goes far beyond any of his predecessors in the ease and sophistication with which he presents con…
The Sick Child
When Deborah and Dale Minter first submitted their materials—her essay and his photographs—I was intrigued by the fact that both were collages of sorts, one verbal and the other visual. I was also struck by the presence of two "voices" in each—the voice of the parent and the voice of the professor (or, in Dale's case, the professional); the voice of experience and the voice of analysis. In order to better explore this phenomenon, I invited two li…
Samantha
Literature and Medicine - Volume 21, Number 1, Spring 2002
Medical Humanities and Cultural Studies
Art (9 works) · Literature (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Psychoanalysis (7 works) · History (6 works) · Empathy and Medical Education (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)