Medical Humanities: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics

ISBN-13: 9781032467849 / Angielski

Alan Bleakley

Opis

This ground-breaking book sets out a fresh vision for a future medical education by providing a radical reconceptualization of the purposes of medical humanities through a lens of critical health psychology and liberatory pedagogy.

Spis treści

1. Born in the USA: origin myths of the medical humanities. 2. The medical humanities come of age. 3. Core, compulsory, and assessed: medical humanities innovations at Peninsula Medical School. 4. The medical humanities: a cure for medical education’s ailments? 5. The medical humanities offer a psychotherapeutic approach to medicine’s ills. 6. A will to complexity. 7. The distribution of the sensible. 8. Understanding "prescription culture" through literature. 9. The narrative turn. 10. Another turn of the screw: as the good ship "poetry" leaves the harbour.

O autorze

Dr 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.