Medical Humanities
An Introduction
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- Authors:
- Thomas R. Cole, University of Texas, Houston School of Medicine
- Nathan S. Carlin, University of Texas, Houston School of Medicine
- Ronald A. Carson, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston
- Date Published: October 2014
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107015623
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This textbook brings the humanities to students in order to evoke the humanity of students. It helps to form individuals who take charge of their own minds, who are free from narrow and unreflective forms of thought, and who act compassionately in their public and professional worlds. Using concepts and methods of the humanities, the book addresses undergraduate and premed students, medical students, and students in other health professions, as well as physicians and other healthcare practitioners. It encourages them to consider the ethical and existential issues related to the experience of disease, care of the dying, health policy, religion and health, and medical technology. Case studies, images, questions for discussion, and role-playing exercises help readers to engage in the practical, interpretive, and analytical aspects of the material, developing skills for critical thinking as well as compassionate care.
Read more- History, literature and the arts, philosophy, and religious studies are used to enhance understanding of ethical and existential issues relating to topics such as the experience of disease, care of the dying, justice and health policy, religion and health, and medical technology
- Case studies, primary sources, and images engage students more actively in the practical, interpretive, or analytical aspects of the materials
- Exercises (including questions for discussion, role playing, and suggested writing exercises) encourage critical thinking and character formation, and further resources (including suggested reading and viewing) are included, and lists of relevant journals and organizations are noted
Reviews & endorsements
"This book is essential to any medical program that endeavors to develop the physicians of tomorrow in today’s complex social, cultural, ethical and political world. It combines a clear introduction to the roles of the humanities in medical education with the detail required for an indispensable source book for teachers and students alike. Medical humanities, as an educational pursuit, has waited a long time for this textbook and who better to write it than three such distinguished originators and advocates of the field."
Jane Macnaugton, Durham UniversitySee more reviews"Rarely has the phrase 'it’s about time’ been more appropriate in medical education than with the publication of Medical Humanities. Its coverage is extraordinary. Crisply written, melding originality and synthesis into a tight, fascinating narrative, it fills an enormous gap in our curriculum. I can’t wait to use it."
David Oshinsky, Director, Division of Medical Humanities, New York University Medical College, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History for Polio: An American Story"Leaders in the field of medical humanities, the authors of this comprehensive and long-overdue textbook bring their collective experience in developing programs, designing curricula, working with students and producing important scholarship to the project. They have provided an essential resource and invaluable tool for teachers in any and all settings: from pre-med classrooms to postgraduate seminars."
Therese Jones, Director, Arts and Humanities in Healthcare Program, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus"Medical Humanities is a wonderful text, a brilliant tour de force by three individuals who had much to do with the creation of this discipline. The subject of humanities as it pertains to medicine is now systematically taught in many medical schools; I can see this work would be a great asset to students as well as those who teach the subject. This volume will find a prized place on my shelf."
Abraham Verghese, Stanford University; Founding Director of the Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics, San Antonio; and author of Cutting for StoneCustomer reviews
10th Feb 2016 by Samuel201
As a longtime student of literature, writing, and philosophical ideas, this illuminating book brings together fact, history, thought, provocation, hypotheses, truth, and intrigue. It is craftily written and poses scenarios requiring careful attention and dissection. Given the importance of ethics in medicine, the design, analysis, and the study of policy, research, integrity, and uncertainty in this comprehensive volume is both resourceful and enthralling. As a layperson, I learned much from this book, and it emphasizes my commitment to emit as well as require a moral fortitude and sense of empathy for myself and those caring for me. I truly believe this collaboration will assist budding care-takers on all levels to demonstrate a stronger sense of comprehension and compassion. This is a must-read for a vast group, from the college student interested in the humanities to the seasoned medical educator or conscientious physician inclined to delve deeper into the interpretations of the medical humanities.
See all reviews18th Feb 2016 by CPowers
What an inspiration to learn about medicine in this book through not only accounts of who created/discovered the science and how it is practiced today but through narratives from those the field serves, those who practice the profession, and those - the community - affected by the field. As a researcher and practitioner in the field of health law, I hope many medical students, their professors, and their clinical and administrative team members in practice read and work with this book's many excellent insights arising from careful readings of these narratives as I did and continue to.
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×Product details
- Date Published: October 2014
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107015623
- length: 466 pages
- dimensions: 261 x 182 x 29 mm
- weight: 0.99kg
- contains: 24 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Part I. History and Medicine:
1. The doctor-patient relationship Thomas Cole and Benjamin Saxton
2. Constructing disease Thomas Cole and Benjamin Saxton
3. Educating doctors Thomas Cole and Benjamin Saxton
4. Technology and medicine Thomas Cole and Benjamin Saxton
5. The health of populations Thomas Cole and Benjamin Saxton
6. Death and dying Thomas Cole and Benjamin Saxton
Part II. Literature, the Arts, and Medicine:
7. Narratives of illness Ronald Carson
8. Aging in film Thomas Cole and Benjamin Saxton
9. Medicine and media Nathan Carlin
10. Poetry and moral imagination Ronald Carson
11. Doctor-writers Ronald Carson
12. Studying medicine Ronald Carson
Part III. Philosophy and Medicine:
13. Ways of knowing Ronald Carson
14. Goals of medicine Ronald Carson
15. Health and disease Thomas Cole and Benjamin Saxton
16. Moral philosophy and bioethics Ronald Carson
17. Medicine and power Nathan Carlin
18. Just health care Ronald Carson
Part IV. Religion and Medicine:
19. World religions for medical humanities Nathan Carlin
20. Religion and health Nathan Carlin
21. Religion and reality Nathan Carlin
22. Religion and bioethics Nathan Carlin
23. Suffering and hope Nathan Carlin
Contributions to chapters William Howze.
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