Humanistyka medyczna: o leczeniu (się) w patosystemie
The Medical Humanities: On Healing (Oneself) in a Pathosystem

Summary/Abstract: Dauksza (re)defines the medical humanities and outlines its framework in contemporary culture. She conceptualises it as an ensemble of textual, visual and performative practices that problematise the experience of functioning in the institution of the hospital. Literary and artistic narratives by women (e.g. Christine Lavant, Olga Hund, Aneta Żukowska, Alina Szapocznikow, Katarzyna Kozyra, Joanna Rajkowska) allow Dauksza to discuss the different functions of the medical humanities: to criticise the health care system, to testify and to offer strategies of repairing/salvaging. She examines the relationshipsbetween different factors within the clinical system, their helplessness and their dependence on politics, class and economy. While exploring the violence that affects patients and health care workers in the system, Dauksza also points to forms of women’s collective self-help, which is the true focus of the medical humanities.

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