1. Introduction Musing 1: Narrative Medicine, Racial Justice and the Black Maternal Mortality Crisis
Part1: Medical Histories and Biopolitics
2. Touching Matters of Care: A Visual Approach to the Care and Violence in Dr Marie Stopes’ Birth Control Campaign
3. Politics in the Time of Cholera: Covid, Table Manners, and Bio-Politics
4. Bio-History: Michel Foucault and the History of Social Medicine Musing 2: Counteracting Psychiatric Violence through Critical Heritage Studies and Co-Operation
Part2: Unsettling and Working Through Practices and Languages of Cure
5. Shaking Monoliths: Thinking with Dan Bar-On: Group Dialog as a Possibility to Approach Original National Socialist Writings from the Private Realm
6. (Un)Making the Schizophrenic: Ronald D Laing’s Therapeutic Strategies
7. Against the Psychiatric Gaze: Violence, Militant Madness and Sexual Difference in Alberto Grifi’s Anthropology of Disobedience
8. Violent Non-Reception: The Denied Poetics of Psychiatry and Frantz Fanon’s Poetization of Science Musing 3: Fanon, Epistemic Injustice, and the Colonial Medical Encounter
Part3. Agency in Illness and Ethics of Suffering
9. Narrative Autonomy to the Test of Illness
10. Plumbing the Perpetual Loss of Paradise: Susan Taubes and Sacred Suffering
11. Almodovar’s Anatomies Musing 4: On Care and Violence
Part4. Anatomy of a Transformation
12. T for Trans: An Outraged Investigation of Non-Binary Medical Transition in Germany
13. I am not my MRI
14. Surprised by the Night: On the Traversal of a Dyasphoric Phantasy
15. Afterword: The Global Collapse of the Humanities and the Success of the Humanities in Professional Settings: A Paradox?