The Heart of the Matter: Love and Care in Health Humanities

Bríd Phillips; Michael Stevens; Claire Hansen

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-26055-1_5

The Heart of the Matter: Love and Care in Health Humanities

Bríd Phillips^*, Michael Stevens, Claire Hansen

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ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences

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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
Title of host publication	Contemporary Love Studies in the Arts and Humanities
Subtitle of host publication	What's Love Got To Do With It?
Editors	Madalena Grobbelaar, Elizabeth Reid Boyd, Debra Dudek
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer Nature
Chapter	5
Pages	51-62
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	9783031260551
ISBN (Print)	9783031260544
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26055-1_5
Publication status	Published - 3 May 2023

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The Heart of the Matter: Love and Care in Health Humanities. / Phillips, Bríd; Stevens, Michael; Hansen, Claire.
Contemporary Love Studies in the Arts and Humanities: What's Love Got To Do With It?. ed. / Madalena Grobbelaar; Elizabeth Reid Boyd; Debra Dudek. Cham: Springer Nature, 2023. p. 51-62.

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