TY - BOOK AU - Cenedese,Marta-Laura AU - Cenedese,Marta-Laura AU - Nicastro,Clio TI - Violence, Care, Cure: Self/perceptions within the Medical Encounter T2 - Routledge Research in Gender and Society SN - 9781032660141 PY - 2025/// CY - London PB - Taylor & Francis, Routledge [Imprint] KW - Gender studies, gender groups KW - thema KW - Gender studies: women and girls KW - Philosophical traditions and schools of thought KW - Philosophy and Religion KW - Philosophy KW - Social groups, communities and identities KW - Society and culture: general KW - Society and Social Sciences KW - Sociology and anthropology KW - Sociology KW - Western philosophy from c 1800 KW - aggression KW - biopolitics KW - care KW - case studies KW - critical theory KW - cure KW - gender studies KW - literature KW - marginalised KW - marginalized KW - medical encounter KW - medical humanities KW - minorities KW - minority KW - spaces KW - violence N1 - Free-to-read N2 - This book explores the notions of violence, care, and cure within the medical encounter and seeks to foreground the ways in which, whether individually or as a triad, they are prone to ambiguous interpretations. The chapters of this book attend to the complex interlacing of these three key terms and what to make of their entanglement by offering historical, practical, philosophical, personal, and aesthetic analyses of different medical scenes, objects, and concepts. Besides the three main concepts that give the collection its title, the volume deals with bodily experience, medical neglect or scepticism, pain and suffering, diagnosis and recovery, and epistemic injustice, through the lens of, among others, biopolitics, ethics, gender medicine, and critical medical humanities. Altogether, the chapters pay particular attention to the role of images and other narratives, including social media platforms. The case studies in this collection invite the reader to observe medical encounters that take place in and are shaped by a variety of both material and 'immaterial' spaces, from the consulting room to the antechamber of medical bureaucracy, and from artistic venues to biopolitical discourses. Taken together, this book argues that a hermeneutic of violence, care, and cure is inseparable from individual and collective perceptions of the medical encounter; that is, it is inextricable from an understanding of the tensions and consensus that surge among perceptions orchestrated by both internal (subjective) and external (social, cultural, political) 'gazes'. Moreover, the volume aims to provide, both directly and indirectly, a meta‑eflection on the disciplines that fall under the umbrella of 'medical and health humanities', interrogating the field's potential to unearth systemic bias, to open different possibilities of existence, and to make visible the complexity of its research objects, as well as to caution against their possible pitfalls. By bringing together different methodological approaches, this volume provides its readers with conceptual resources for thinking about the intersections of violence, care, and cure. By providing a space where the voices of both emerging and established scholars mingle and respond to one another, this book will be essential reading for anyone across the social sciences and humanities interested in the sociology of health and medicine, the medical humanities, and gender studies UR - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101153 ER -