Medical Humanities

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.

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

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.