1. Introduction: Violence, Care, Cure: (Self-)Perceptions Within the Medical Encounter 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 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-Story: Michel Foucault and The History of Social Medicine Musing 2: Counteracting Psychiatric Violence Through Critical Heritage Studies and Cooperation
Part2: Unsettling and Working Through Practices and Languages of Cure
5. The ‘Interpretation Workshop’ As Artistic Research: A Methodological Approach to Original Biographical National Socialist Writings
6. ‘The Way Out Is Via the Door’: R.D. Laing and the Cure from The Family
7. ‘Io Sono Matta’: Psychiatric Violence, Militant Madness, and Sexual Difference in Alberto Grifi’s ‘Anthropology of Disobedience’
8. The Denied Poetics of Global Psychiatry and Frantz Fanon’s Poetisation 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. Almodóvar’s Anatomies Musing 4: On Care and Violence in Medical Humanities Research Collaborations
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 Dysphoric Phantasy
15. Afterword: Moral Value in Medicine: Violence, Cure, and Care