Medical Humanities

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Ronald A. Carson Thomas R. ColeCambridge University Press, 11/30/2014EAN 9781107015623, ISBN10: 1107015626Hardcover, 466 pages, 26.1 x 18.2 x 2.9 cmLanguage: EnglishThis textbook b rings the humanities to students in order to evoke the humanity of students. It helps to form individuals who take charge of their own minds, who are free from narrow and unreflective forms of thought, and who act compassionately in their public and professional worlds. Using concepts and methods of the humanities, the book addresses undergraduate and premed students, medical students, and students in other health professions, as well as physicians and other healthcare practitioners. It encourages them to consider the ethical and existential issues related to the experience of disease, care of the dying, health policy, religion and health, and medical technology. Case studies, images, questions for discussion, and role-playing exercises help readers to engage in the practical, interpretive, and analytical aspects of the material, developing skills for critical thinking as well as compassionate care.Part I. History and Medicine1. The doctor-patient relationship Thomas Cole and Benjamin Saxton2. Constructing disease Thomas Cole and Benjamin Saxton3. Educating doctors Thomas Cole and Benjamin Saxton4. Technology and medicine Thomas Cole and Benjamin Saxton5. The health of populations Thomas Cole and Benjamin Saxton6. Death and dying Thomas Cole and Benjamin SaxtonPart II. Literature, the Arts, and Medicine7. Narratives of illness Ronald Carson8. Aging in film Thomas Cole and Benjamin Saxton9. Medicine and media Nathan Carlin10. Poetry and moral imagination Ronald Carson11. Doctor-writers Ronald Carson12. Studying medicine Ronald CarsonPart III. Philosophy and Medicine13. Ways of knowing Ronald Carson14. Goals of medicine Ronald Carson15. Health and disease Thomas Cole and Benjamin Saxton16. Moral philosophy and bioethics Ronald Carson17. Medicine and power Nathan Carlin18. Just health care Ronald CarsonPart IV. Religion and Medicine19. World religions for medical humanities Nathan Carlin20. Religion and health Nathan Carlin21. Religion and reality Nathan Carlin22. Religion and bioethics Nathan Carlin23. Suffering and hope Nathan CarlinContributions to chapters William Howze. Show more