Abstract
This chapter, “The Heart of the Matter: Love and Care in Health Humanities,” investigates how the multiple meanings of the heart and of love can be brought to bear on a multidisciplinary investigation of love-as-care in literary studies (through the works of William Shakespeare) and in biomedical engineering (through the innovation of artificial hearts). In both cases, the heart is witnessed as both a physical body part and a site of love-as-care. In this chapter, Phillips, Stevens, and Hansen establish a basis for this approach, centring on a health humanities-informed concept of therapeutic love. Then, they apply this concept at a literary and a clinical level, considering manifestations of therapeutic love in Shakespeare’s King Lear, before examining the role of love-as-care in the post-implantation management of patients with artificial hearts.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Contemporary Love Studies in the Arts and Humanities |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Chapter | 5 |
| Pages | 51-62 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9783031260551 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783031260544 |
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| Publication status | Published - 3 May 2023 |