Alan Bleakley

Medical Humanities and Medical Education (eBook, ePUB)

How the medical humanities can shape better doctors

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The 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. In an era of limited resources, is such provision worth the investment?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317676249
• Artikelnr.: 42508488

Autorenporträt

Alan Bleakley is Emeritus Professor of Medical Education and Medical Humanities at Plymouth University Peninsula Medical School, UK. He is past President of the Association of Medical Humanities.

Inhaltsangabe

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