Ethics and the Arts in the Medical Humanities

2014 ◽  
pp. 213-224
Author(s):  
Claire Hooker
Keyword(s):  
Medical Humanities ◽  
The Arts

Empathy and Interdisciplinarity

2017 ◽  
pp. 91-124
Author(s):  
Anne Whitehead
Keyword(s):  
Critical Point ◽  
Medical Humanities ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Popular Science ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Third Culture ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Two Cultures

This chapter asks how, in the context of the medical humanities, we might productively think across disciplinary domains and boundaries. It draws on Ian McEwan’s Saturday as a focus for positioning the question of interdisciplinarity within a specifically British context. The first section, ‘The two cultures’, surveys the ‘two cultures’ debate and its legacy and discusses the appearance of Matthew Arnold’s poem ‘Dover Beach’ at a critical point of the novel. In the second section, ‘A third culture?’, the focus turns to McEwan’s engagement with popular science discourses and argues that it underpins a discernible conservatism in his work. The final section, ‘An unbounded view’, reads Saturday against the grain to argue that, in McEwan’s treatment of dementia a more positive, open-ended model for thinking across the arts and sciences might be seen to emerge.

Medical Humanities

2011 ◽  
pp. 210-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Ravi Shankar
Keyword(s):  
Medical Ethics ◽  
Medical Humanities ◽  
Medical Schools ◽  
Developing Nations ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Ethics Teaching ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Developed Nations ◽  
The Relationship

Medical Humanities (MH) provide a contrasting perspective of the arts to the ‘science’ of medicine. A definition of MH agreed upon by all workers is lacking. There are a number of advantages of teaching MH to medical students. MH programs are common in medical schools in developed nations. In developing nations these are not common and in the chapter the author describes programs in Brazil, Turkey, Argentina and Nepal. The relationship between medical ethics and MH is the subject of debate. Medical ethics teaching appears to be commoner compared to MH in medical schools. MH programs are not common in Asia and there are many challenges to MH teaching. Patient and illness narratives are become commoner in medical education. The author has conducted MH programs in two Nepalese medical schools and shares his experiences.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Whitehead ◽  
Angela Woods
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Medical Humanities ◽  
Biomedical Sciences ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social

The medical humanities, we claim, names a series of intersections, exchanges and entanglements between the biomedical sciences,1 the arts and humanities, and the social sciences. The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities introduces the ideas, individuals and scholarly approaches that are currently shaping the field. The medical humanities is an area of inquiry that is highly interdisciplinary, rapidly expanding and increasingly globalised. As this Introduction and the chapters that follow demonstrate, ...

scholarly journals On the arts and humanities in medical education

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Danielle G. Rabinowitz
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Medical Humanities ◽  
Medical Training ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The Public ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Concomitant Reduction ◽  
Flexner Report ◽  
The Cost

AbstractThis paper aims to position the birth of the Medical Humanities movement in a greater historical context of twentieth century American medical education and to paint a picture of the current landscape of the Medical Humanities in medical training. It first sheds light on the model of medical education put forth by Abraham Flexner through the publishing of the 1910 Flexner Report, which set the stage for defining physicians as experimentalists and rooting the profession in research institutions. While this paved the way for medical advancements, it came at the cost of producing a patriarchal approach to medical practice. By the late 1960s, the public persona of the profession was thus devoid of humanism. This catalyzed the birth of the Medical Humanities movement that helped lay the framework for what has perpetuated as the ongoing incorporation of humanistic subjects into medical training. As we enter a time in medicine in which rates of burnout are ever-increasing and there are growing concerns about a concomitant reduction in empathy among trainees, the need for instilling humanism remains important. We must consequently continue to consider how to ensure the place of the Medical Humanities in medical education moving forward.

scholarly journals Afterword: Evidence and Experiment

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Waugh
Keyword(s):  
Medical Humanities ◽  
Biomedical Sciences ◽  
Ian Hacking ◽  
Postmodern Theory ◽  
Cultural Assumptions ◽  
The Arts ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
Group Identities ◽  
Embodied Self

In styles that range from the performatively paratactic and experimental, to scholarly sobriety and sharp sociocultural critique, these chapters engage issues concerning the contemporary uses and forms of experiment and the building and distribution of kinds of evidence in relation to new concepts and practices of experimentation within the contemporary biomedical sciences. They explore some less obvious ways in which knowledges and practices forged in this new ‘megaphone’ science resonate far beyond conventional spaces of research and are deeply and reciprocally entangled with the embodied self-fashioning of individual selves and group identities. Everywhere, not only in postmodern theory or art, as Ian Hacking has reminded us, people are made up: but they are fashioned through highly reflexive and recursive knowledge-making practices deeply intertwined with and distributed across multiple agencies and cultural domains. In this response, I will consider key themes explored in these chapters by bringing to bear on the discussion some earlier conceptualisations of experiment and evidence that still powerfully shape our cultural assumptions and I will consider briefly whether some further reflection on experimentalism in the arts may also usefully bear on key interdisciplinary questions for a future critical medical humanities.

Why Are the Health Humanities Relevant (and Vital) in Postgraduate Medical Education?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Skorzewska ◽  
Allan D. Peterkin
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Medical Humanities ◽  
Postgraduate Medical Education ◽  
Health Humanities ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Hands On ◽  
History Of ◽  
Based Medicine

This introductory chapter provides a short history of medical humanities and continues on to give an overview of the limits of medical practice, evidence-based medicine (EBM), successes and failures, curricula, and the current state of medical humanities. The medical and health humanities have become a widespread discipline, with journals, institutes, and associations worldwide. Throughout undergraduate medical education, new courses, electives, programs, and research are proliferating. Yet there is very little officially documented about relevance and efficacy in postgraduate medical education. The chapters that follow provide both a rigorous argument for using the arts and humanities in postgraduate medical education and a practical “how-to” that will guide readers in developing arts and humanities initiatives in their own program or medical school. Each chapter provides ideas, hands-on lesson plans, and resources to pave the way forward.

scholarly journals The meaning of the name of ‘pulmonary rehabilitation’ and its influence on engagement with individuals with chronic lung disease

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 147997311984765 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Oxley ◽  
Samantha L. Harrison ◽  
Arthur Rose ◽  
Jane Macnaughton
Keyword(s):  
Pulmonary Rehabilitation ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Medical Humanities ◽  
Whole Body ◽  
Dance Movement ◽  
North East ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Lung Condition ◽  
Community Fitness ◽  
Lung Health

Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) is recommended for all individuals living with a lung condition and chronic breathlessness. This article considers how adopting an interdisciplinary, medical humanities approach to the term ‘pulmonary rehabilitation’ might unpack some of the misconceptions, misrepresentations or negative connotations surrounding it, which have been largely overlooked in explanations of the low uptake of this programme. Taking key insights from Wellcome Trust-funded Life of Breath project, including ethnographic research in community fitness groups in North East England and the ‘Breath Lab’ special interest group, this article outlines how the whole-body approach of PR is not easily understood by those with lung conditions; how experience can inform breath perception through the pacing of everyday life; and how stigma can impact rehabilitation. This article highlights the value of medical humanities in working through communicative challenges evident in the translation of PR between patient and clinical contexts and sets out two arts-based approaches (Singing for Lung Health and dance movement) as potential options that could be included in the PR referral. Finally, the article outlines the need for collaborative research exploring the communication and meaning of healthcare strategies and experiences at the interface of the arts, humanities and medical practice.

Conclusion

2017 ◽  
pp. 187-193
Author(s):  
Anne Whitehead
Keyword(s):  
Medical Humanities ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts

The conclusion proposes the need for a more contextualised and a more politicised medical humanities. It also urges a repositioning of the arts and humanities so that they play a more critical, and potentially constitutive, role in relation to the medical. While the volume has been critical of mainstream medical humanities, its continued focus on empathy produces a thread of continuity across the first and second waves of activity in the field. In this sense, the conclusion indicates that, by fostering attunement to a more critically sensitive model of empathy, the medical humanities can move forward in new and surprising directions, as well as remaining grounded in, if differently oriented towards, its founding ethical commitments.

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