Medical humanities
Medical humanities is an interdisciplinary field of medicine which includes the humanities (literature, philosophy, ethics, history and religion), social science (anthropology, cultural studies, psychology, sociology), and the arts (literature, theater, film, and visual arts) and their application to medical education and practice.
The humanities and arts provide insight into the human condition, suffering, personhood, our responsibility to each other, and offer a historical perspective on medical practice. Attention to literature and the arts helps to develop and nurture skills of observation, analysis, empathy, and self-reflection -- skills that are essential for humane medical care. The social sciences help us to understand how bioscience and medicine take place within cultural and social contexts and how culture interacts with the individual experience of illness and the way medicine is practiced.
Cinemeducation, from the title of a text by Matthew Alexander, Anna Pavlov, and Patricia Lenahan, refers to the use of film in medical education.
External links
- http://www.stfm.org/fmhub/fm2002/feb02/lame.pdf The Doctor: A Seminal Video for Cinemeducation by Matthew Alexander, PhD Family Medicine 2002
- http://johnwaits.typepad.com/tfmr_clinic_pearls/2010/04/cinemeducation-using-film-in-medical-education.html Cinemeducation
- http://mh.bmj.com/
- http://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/
- http://www.dur.ac.uk/cmh/ Centre for Medical Humanities, Durham University
- http://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/groups/chh/ Centre for the Humanities and Health, King's College London
- http://www.meded.uci.edu/Medhum/index.html UC Irvine School of Medicine Medical Humanities and Arts
- http://sydney.edu.au/medicine/humanities/ University of Sydney Centre for Medical Humanities
- http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Main?action=new Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database at NYU School of Medicine
- http://www.stonybrook.edu/bioethics/ Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics at Stony Brook University
- http://www.ea-journal.com/ Eä - Journal of Medical Humanities & Social Studies of Science and Technology
