The authors of this interesting book put forward the idea that students are 'trained'to be
doctors rather than being 'educated in medicine'. Yet students need to acquire humane …

The authors of this interesting book put forward the idea that students are 'trained'to be
doctors rather than being 'educated in medicine'. Yet students need to acquire humane …

The authors of this interesting book put forward the idea that students are 'trained'to be
doctors rather than being 'educated in medicine'. Yet students need to acquire humane …

This book partially exemplifies how medical humanities approaches, particularly those
drawn from philosophy and literature, might deepen and broaden understandings of ethics …

The purpose of medical humanities is to improve the delivery of effective health care through
a better understanding of disease in society, and in the individual. The interfaces between …

That experiential change in a person's body that is known as a symptom is both the starting
point for the journey that leads a person to a medical encounter and the starting point for the …

Critiquing many areas of medical practice and research whilst making constructive
suggestions about medical education, this book extends the scope of medical ethics beyond …

Just how perilous this is, at a rather general level concerning the institutional “positioning” of
medical humanities inquiries in relation to medical ethics, is explored in Pattison's paper in …

THE phrase 'medical humanities' has recently begun to find a place in the wider vocabulary
of medical and health care, perhaps especially—though not exclusively—within medical …

Abstract “Medical humanities” is a phrase whose currency is wider than its agreed meaning
or denotation. What sort of study is it, and what is its relation to the study of philosophy of …