• Rahul Singh Bhandari
• Dr Gunjan Saxena

This paper makes an interdisciplinary analysis of Abraham Verghese’s novel Cutting for Stone, inquiring and positing about the relationship between literature and healthcare settings . Through the usage of critical perspectives from phenomenology and postcolonial theory, the study challenges the strategies of foregrounding the embodied point of experiences of healing and illness. By implying the novel within the contemporary debates on medical epistemologies, it widens challenges to the Cartesian dualisms and the stand of lived experience within clinical practice. Researching the interplay between the symbolisms that embody Western biomedicine and indigenous healing practices allows us to deconstruct the symbolic hierarchies of medical knowledge in Verghese’s text, and thereafter enabling us to critique those hierarchies as well as to advocate for a more inclusive and ethically responsive patient care. Specifically, the paper bridges the gap between textual and theoretical perspectives on the part of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Frantz Fanon, and Martha Nussbaum, methodologically, to uncover the transformative possibilities of literature by reimagining medical practice. In the end, this study adds to the more general work of the medical humanities by embodying a more complex view of narrative and embodied knowledge for reconceptualizing health, identity, and being human.

Medical Humanities; Phenomenology; Narrative Medicine

"Narratives of Healing and Ethics: A Medical Humanities Analysis of Abraham Verghese's Cutting for Stone", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.12, Issue 5, page no.g960-g970, May-2025, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2505800.pdf

"Narratives of Healing and Ethics: A Medical Humanities Analysis of Abraham Verghese's Cutting for Stone", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.12, Issue 5, page no. ppg960-g970, May-2025, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2505800.pdf