Description
Book SynopsisThe field of the medical humanities is developing rapidly, however, there has also been parallel concern from sceptics that the value of medical humanities educational interventions should be open to scrutiny and evidence. Just what is the impact of medical humanities provision upon the education of medical students? In an era of limited resources, is such provision worth the investment? This innovative text addresses these pressing questions, describes the contemporary territory comprising the medical humanities in medical education, and explains how this field may be developed as a key medical education component for the future.
Bleakley, a driving force of the international movement to establish the medical humanities as a core and integrated provision in the medical curriculum, proposes a model that requires collaboration between patients, artists, humanities scholars, doctors and other health professionals, in developing medical students' sensibility (clinical acum
Table of Contents
Foreword Arno K. Kumagai Introduction 1. Where do the Medical Humanities Come From and Where are They Going? 2. What are the 'Medical Humanities'? Definitions and Controversies 3. The Distribution of the Sensible 4. Empathy and its Discontents 5. Towards a Medical Aesthetics: Creativity and Imagination in Medical Education 6. Close Noticing 7. Can Narrative Medicine take the Strain? 8. Hyper-Realism and the Chemical Regulation of Mood 9. Evaluating the Impact of Medical Humanities Provision
