Medical Humanities

Medical Humanities

An Introduction

Carlin, Nathan S.; Cole, Thomas R.; Carson, Ronald A.

Cambridge University Press

10/2014

464

Mole

Inglês

9781107614178

1107614171

15 a 20 dias

850

This textbook helps students and health professionals develop critical-thinking skills as well as compassion by using the many concepts and methods of the humanities. Readers are invited to consider existential issues relating to topics such as the experience of disease, care of the dying, health policy, religion and health, and medical technology.
Part I. History and Medicine: 1. The doctor-patient relationship Thomas Cole and Benjamin Saxton; 2. Constructing disease Thomas Cole and Benjamin Saxton; 3. Educating doctors Thomas Cole and Benjamin Saxton; 4. Technology and medicine Thomas Cole and Benjamin Saxton; 5. The health of populations Thomas Cole and Benjamin Saxton; 6. Death and dying Thomas Cole and Benjamin Saxton; Part II. Literature, the Arts, and Medicine: 7. Narratives of illness Ronald Carson; 8. Aging in film Thomas Cole and Benjamin Saxton; 9. Medicine and media Nathan Carlin; 10. Poetry and moral imagination Ronald Carson; 11. Doctor-writers Ronald Carson; 12. Studying medicine Ronald Carson; Part III. Philosophy and Medicine: 13. Ways of knowing Ronald Carson; 14. Goals of medicine Ronald Carson; 15. Health and disease Thomas Cole and Benjamin Saxton; 16. Moral philosophy and bioethics Ronald Carson; 17. Medicine and power Nathan Carlin; 18. Just health care Ronald Carson; Part IV. Religion and Medicine: 19. World religions for medical humanities Nathan Carlin; 20. Religion and health Nathan Carlin; 21. Religion and reality Nathan Carlin; 22. Religion and bioethics Nathan Carlin; 23. Suffering and hope Nathan Carlin; Contributions to chapters William Howze.
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