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ANNE WHITEHEAD Writing with Care: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go n Not for Profit (2010), Martha Nussbaum has diagnosed that alongside a global economic crisis, a less visible, more insid- ious catastrophe is also affecting Western societies, namely the underfunding of the arts and humanities. Working against the increasing commercialization of the academy, Nuss- baum sets out a vision of the arts, and especially literature, as central to the functioning of a healthy democratic society, first because they underpin skills of reasoning, argument, and cri- tique, and secondly because they cultivate imaginative, caring, and empathic citizens. Nussbaum’s passionate defense of the humanities coincides, and to some degree overlaps, with the emergence of the medical humanities over the past decade or so. Tying the notion of the “healthy” society more particularly to health-care institutions and systems, the medical humanities have pointed to a contemporary crisis of care in Western societies that emerges out of a number of factors, including the increasing bureaucratization and privatization of care services, and the fragmentation of the patient among subspecializations. Having thus diagnosed an ailing system of health care, the medical I would like to thank the following individuals for inviting me to give
Contemporary Literature – University of Wisconsin Press
Published: Jun 16, 2011
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