Forming Physicians: Evaluating the Opportunities and Benefits of Structured Integration of Humanities and Ethics into Medical Education
AbstractThis paper offers a novel, qualitative approach to evaluating the outcomes of integrating humanities and ethics into a newly revised pre-clerkship medical education curriculum. The authors set out to evaluate medical students ’ perceptions, learning outcomes, and growth in identity development. Led by a team of interdisciplinary scholars, this qualitative project examines multiple sources of student experience and perception data, including student essays, end-of-year surveys, and semi-structured interviews with studen ts. Data were analyzed using deductive and inductive processes to identify key categories and r...
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - August 1, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Anti/Vax: Reframing the Vaccination Controversy, by Bernice L. Hausman. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2019
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Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - July 29, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Anti/Vax: Reframing the Vaccine Controversy, by Bernice L. Hausman
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Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - July 29, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Art is Patient: A Museum-Based Experience to Teach Trauma-Sensitive Engagement in Health Care
This article presen ts a recent innovation, the Art is Patient seminar series, which focuses on aesthetic exercises to help learners access and share non-verbal, embodied, and relational responses to art. Based in an art museum context, it provides successive experiences of approaching, witnessing, and engaging with vi sual art as an analogue to developing trauma-sensitive relationships. Reflections on the process locate the seminar vis-à-vis health humanities practices, aesthetics, and trauma-informed approaches. (Source: Journal of Medical Humanities)
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - July 28, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Medical Pluralism as a Matter of Justice
AbstractCulture, health, and medicine intersect in various ways —and not always without friction. This paper examines how liberal multicultural states ought to interact with diverse communities which hold different health-related or medical beliefs and practices. The debate is fierce within the fields of medicine and bioethics as to how traditional medicines o ught to be regarded. What this debate often misses is the relationship that medical traditions have with cultural identity and the value that these traditions can have beyond the confines of the clinical setting. This paper will attempt to bring some clarity to the...
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - July 12, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
The Medicine of Art: Disease and the Aesthetic Object in Gilded Age America, by Elizabeth L. Lee. New York: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2022
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Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - July 10, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Grief Grows Here
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Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - June 22, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
