Educating Doctors' Senses Through the Medical Humanities: How Do I Look?

ISBN-13: 9781032175201 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 192 str.

Alan Bleakley

Opis

 Educating Doctors’ Senses Through the Medical Humanities: "How Do I Look?" uses the medical diagnostic method to identify a chronic symptom in medical culture: the unintentional production of insensibility through compulsory mis-education.

Spis treści

Introduction

1. Medicine making sense: the senses as a system

2. ‘Out, damned spot!’: The abject in medicine, cadaver dissection and education for insensibility

3. How do I smell?

4. From Listening to Hearing

5. Medical students learn ‘sonic alignment’: the medical humanities and listening

6. "How do I look?": from ‘looking’ to ‘seeing’

7. Doing and researching aesthetic work in the visual domain

8. Touch/ Don’t touch

9. "How do I look?": performativity and identity

O autorze

Alan Bleakley is Emeritus Professor at the University of Plymouth’s Peninsula School of Medicine and Dentistry, UK.