Translationality

This book defines "translationality" by weaving a number of sub- and interdisciplinary interests through the medical humanities: medicine in literature, the translational history of medical literature, a medical (neuroscience) approach to literary translation and translational hermeneutics, and a humanities (phenomenological/performative) approach to translational medicine. It consists of three long essays: the first on the traditional medicine-in-literature side of the medical humanities, with a close look at a recent novel built around the Capgras delusion and other neurological misidentification disorders; the second beginning with the traditional history-of-medicine side of the medical humanities, but segueing into literary history, translation history, and translation theory; the third on the social neuroscience of translational hermeneutics. The conclusion links the discussion up with a humanistic (performative/phenomenological) take on translational medicine.

Douglas Robinson is Professor of Translating and Interpreting at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and is one of the world's leading experts on translation. He is the author or editor of thirty books, including path breaking publications in translation studies such as The Translator's Turn (1991),Translation and Taboo (1996), Translation and the Problem of Sway (2011), and The Dao of Translation (2015), Transgender, Translation, Translingual Address(2019), The Behavioral Economics of Translation (2023), Translation as a Form (2023), Priming Translation (2023), Translating the Monster (2023), and The Experimental Translator (2023).

Preface0.1 Translationality 0.2 Medical humanities 0.3 Translational-medical humanities 0.4 Acknowledgments Essay 1 The medical humanities: the creation of the (un)real as fiction 1.1 Capgras fictions 1: The Echo Maker 1.2 Capgras fictions 2: simulacra in Baudrillard and humanistic applications 1.3 Capgras fictions 3: back to The Echo Maker 1.4 Conclusion: icosis Essay 2 The translational humanities of medicine: literary history as performed translationality 2.1 Translationality vs. cloning 2.2 Translations of medicine as/in literature 2.3 Rethinking translationality 2.4 Conclusion: icosis again Essay 3 The medical humanities of translation: the social neuroscience of hermeneutics 3.1 Neurocognitive translation studies 3.2 The social neuroscience of hermeneutics 3.3 Translation as foreignization, estrangement, and alienation 3.4 Chinese philosophy 3.5 The icosis/ecosis of hermeneutics Conclusion: the humanities of translational medicine: the performative phenomenology of (self)care