Culture and Medicine: Critical Readings in the Health and Medical Humanities

Rishi Goyal is Director of the Medicine, Literature and Society major in the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University, USA.

Arden Hegele is Lecturer in Discipline in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, USA. She specializes in nineteenth-century British literature and the medical and health humanities. Her books are Romantic Autopsy: Literary Form and Medical Reading (Oxford, 2022) and the anthology Culture and Medicine: Critical Readings in the Health and Medical Humanities (co-edited with Dr. Rishi Goyal) . Hegele's research in Romanticism has been published in core journals, such as European Romantic Review, Romanticism, The Byron Journal, and Keats-Shelley Journal, and she has also published in Partial Answers, Gender and Education, and Persuasions. Her book reviews are featured in Public Books, Review 19, Studies in Romanticism, Victorian Network, Partial Answers and Avidly. She is a reviewer at British Medical Journal, Prose Studies, and elsewhere. At Columbia, Hegele has taught in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, in the Medical Humanities major, in the Core Curriculum, and in the Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics at Columbia Medical Center. She is co-founding editor (with Dr. Rishi Goyal) of Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal. She directs the Explorations in the Medical Humanities Series at the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities.