Bradley Lewis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3864520 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bradley Lewis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bradley |
| FAMILY NAME | Lewis |
| SIGNATURE | LEWIS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4940-1847 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Mad Studies Reader
A Body Made of Glass
The Brain Disorders Debate, Chekhov, and Mental Health Humanities
The contemporary brain disorders debate echoes a century-long conflict between two different approaches to mental suffering: one that relies on natural sciences and another drawing from the arts and humanities. We review contemporary neuroimaging studies and find that neither side has won. The study of mental differences needs both the sciences and the arts and humanities. To help develop an approach mindful of both, we turn to physician-writer A…
How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind
Planetary Health Humanities—Responding to Covid Times
Metagnosis
Reviewed by: Metagnosis: Revelatory Narratives of Health and Identity by Danielle Spencer Bradley Lewis (bio) Danielle Spencer, Metagnosis: Revelatory Narratives of Health and Identity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. xv + 369 pp. Hardcover, $39.95. Danielle Spencer’s Metagnosis: Revelatory Narratives of Health and Identity is a landmark and deeply imaginative contribution to work at the interfaces of biomedicine, psychiatry, humanities,…
A Medical Sublime
Do No Harm
Authoring Autism
A deep ethics for mental difference and disability
Despite a growing prevalence of mental illness diagnoses and treatments, there remains remarkable interpretive diversity regarding the meaning of these diagnoses and their implication for mental healthcare. Humanities scholarship devoted to language, power and ethical cares of the self provides invaluable tools for navigating interpretive diversity in this domain. This scholarship suggests that ethical questions of informed consent regarding ment…
Mindfulness, Mysticism, and Narrative Medicine
Narrative Medicine and Healthcare Reform
Mother’s Milk
Obsession
Reviewed by: Obsession: A History, and: The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder, and: Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness, and: Bipolar Expeditions: Mania and Depression in American Culture Bradley Lewis (bio) Lennard Davis. Obsession: A History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Cloth $27.50. 296 pp. Paperback, $17.00. e-Book, $5–$17.00. Allan V. Horwitz and Jerome Wakefield. Th…
The New Global Health Movement
World health is at a critical crossroads. Diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS ravage many parts of the globe and new diseases such as SARS, West Nile virus, and avian flu threaten to spread quickly and virulently. A new global health movement is rapidly emerging to bring medical solutions to these immense world health problems. Desirable as this goal may be there are multiple negative consequences and side effects associated with…
Listening to Chekhov
Listening to Chekhov:Narrative Approaches to Depression Bradley Lewis (bio) We live in an era of depression. According to the World Health Organization, depression affects 121 million people across the globe; it is the fourth leading contributor to the global burden of disease and, by the year 2020, will be the second.1 At its worst, depression leads to suicide, killing approximately 850,000 persons every year worldwide.2 In the United States alo…
Songs from the Black Chair
Reviewed by: Songs from the Black Chair: A Memoir of Mental Interiors Bradley Lewis (bio) Charles Barber . Songs from the Black Chair: A Memoir of Mental Interiors. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. 202 pp. Hardcover, $22.00. The pleasure of reading Charles Barber's Songs from the Black Chair arises from the elegance and beauty of his prose. Barber crafts each of his "mental interiors" with the richness of fiction and the precision of …
Moving beyond Prozac, DSM, and the new psychiatry
"Interesting and fresh-represents an important and vigorous challenge to a discipline that at the moment is stuck in its own devices and needs a radical critique to begin to move ahead." --Paul McHugh, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine "Remarkable in its breadth-an interesting and valuable contribution to the burgeoning literature of the philosophy of psychiatry." --Christian Perring, Dowling College Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and the N…
Medical Intellectuals
Better Than Well
Bioethics professor Carl Elliott's Better Than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream offers a wide-ranging, ironic, and gently mocking (while still very serious) consideration of the emerging partnership between American medicine and the biotech century. Elliott's topic puts him in the company of a host of contemporary scholars who sense something unusual and something worrisome about the current techno-medical moment. These scholars a…
Prozac and the Post-human Politics of Cyborgs
Response to David DeGrazia
Psychiatry and Postmodern Theory
Reading Cultural Studies of Medicine
The New Global Health Movement
World health is at a critical crossroads. Diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS ravage many parts of the globe and new diseases such as SARS, West Nile virus, and avian flu threaten to spread quickly and virulently. A new global health movement is rapidly emerging to bring medical solutions to these immense world health problems. Desirable as this goal may be there are multiple negative consequences and side effects associated with…
Reading Cultural Studies of Medicine
Psychiatry and Postmodern Theory
Better Than Well
Bioethics professor Carl Elliott's Better Than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream offers a wide-ranging, ironic, and gently mocking (while still very serious) consideration of the emerging partnership between American medicine and the biotech century. Elliott's topic puts him in the company of a host of contemporary scholars who sense something unusual and something worrisome about the current techno-medical moment. These scholars a…
Prozac and the Post-human Politics of Cyborgs
Response to David DeGrazia
Medical Intellectuals
Listening to Chekhov
Listening to Chekhov:Narrative Approaches to Depression Bradley Lewis (bio) We live in an era of depression. According to the World Health Organization, depression affects 121 million people across the globe; it is the fourth leading contributor to the global burden of disease and, by the year 2020, will be the second.1 At its worst, depression leads to suicide, killing approximately 850,000 persons every year worldwide.2 In the United States alo…
Songs from the Black Chair
Reviewed by: Songs from the Black Chair: A Memoir of Mental Interiors Bradley Lewis (bio) Charles Barber . Songs from the Black Chair: A Memoir of Mental Interiors. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. 202 pp. Hardcover, $22.00. The pleasure of reading Charles Barber's Songs from the Black Chair arises from the elegance and beauty of his prose. Barber crafts each of his "mental interiors" with the richness of fiction and the precision of …
Moving beyond Prozac, DSM, and the new psychiatry
"Interesting and fresh-represents an important and vigorous challenge to a discipline that at the moment is stuck in its own devices and needs a radical critique to begin to move ahead." --Paul McHugh, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine "Remarkable in its breadth-an interesting and valuable contribution to the burgeoning literature of the philosophy of psychiatry." --Christian Perring, Dowling College Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and the N…
The New Global Health Movement
World health is at a critical crossroads. Diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS ravage many parts of the globe and new diseases such as SARS, West Nile virus, and avian flu threaten to spread quickly and virulently. A new global health movement is rapidly emerging to bring medical solutions to these immense world health problems. Desirable as this goal may be there are multiple negative consequences and side effects associated with…
Mother’s Milk
Obsession
Reviewed by: Obsession: A History, and: The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder, and: Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness, and: Bipolar Expeditions: Mania and Depression in American Culture Bradley Lewis (bio) Lennard Davis. Obsession: A History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Cloth $27.50. 296 pp. Paperback, $17.00. e-Book, $5–$17.00. Allan V. Horwitz and Jerome Wakefield. Th…
Narrative Medicine and Healthcare Reform
Mindfulness, Mysticism, and Narrative Medicine
A deep ethics for mental difference and disability
Despite a growing prevalence of mental illness diagnoses and treatments, there remains remarkable interpretive diversity regarding the meaning of these diagnoses and their implication for mental healthcare. Humanities scholarship devoted to language, power and ethical cares of the self provides invaluable tools for navigating interpretive diversity in this domain. This scholarship suggests that ethical questions of informed consent regarding ment…
Authoring Autism
Do No Harm
Metagnosis
Reviewed by: Metagnosis: Revelatory Narratives of Health and Identity by Danielle Spencer Bradley Lewis (bio) Danielle Spencer, Metagnosis: Revelatory Narratives of Health and Identity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. xv + 369 pp. Hardcover, $39.95. Danielle Spencer’s Metagnosis: Revelatory Narratives of Health and Identity is a landmark and deeply imaginative contribution to work at the interfaces of biomedicine, psychiatry, humanities,…
A Medical Sublime
Planetary Health Humanities—Responding to Covid Times
How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind
The Brain Disorders Debate, Chekhov, and Mental Health Humanities
The contemporary brain disorders debate echoes a century-long conflict between two different approaches to mental suffering: one that relies on natural sciences and another drawing from the arts and humanities. We review contemporary neuroimaging studies and find that neither side has won. The study of mental differences needs both the sciences and the arts and humanities. To help develop an approach mindful of both, we turn to physician-writer A…
Mad Studies Reader
A Body Made of Glass
Psychology (16 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Empathy and Medical Education (10 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Aesthetics (8 works) · Art (8 works) · Mental Health and Psychiatry (7 works)