Douglas Robinson is Chair Professor of English at Hong Kong Baptist University, and most recently authored Critical Translation Studies (Routledge).

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