The book delves into the intersection of poetry and medicine, highlighting how poetic appreciation can enhance medical practice. By 'defamiliarising' established habits, it encourages a fresh perspective on patient care through poetic techniques of 'close reading.' This exploration reveals the potential for a deeper emotional and intellectual engagement within the medical field, suggesting that the arts can significantly inform and enrich clinical experiences.
Offering a fresh vision for medical education, this groundbreaking work reconceptualizes the role of medical humanities through critical health psychology and liberatory pedagogy. It challenges traditional approaches and encourages a transformative understanding of medical training, aiming to enhance the educational experience and improve healthcare outcomes. The book advocates for a more holistic and inclusive perspective, emphasizing the importance of integrating humanistic principles into medical practice.
Alchemy is popularly viewed as a secret way of turning worthless base metal into gold, and then a precursor to modern chemistry. This is often taken as a metaphor for psychological development. This book describes an innovative „third way“ for both the education and exercise of an alchemical imagination that embraces both material matters and psychological insight: alchemy as lyrical poetics, or the intensive production of embodied metaphor. Alchemy here is viewed as an immanent set of metaphor-driven „best practices“ for indwelling complex and contradictory earthly matters in a sensual, artistic and humane manner. Or, again, it describes best psychotherapeutic practice. Alchemy is read not as a medium for „personal growth“, but optimal co-existence with the natural world. It is an eco-logical rather than ego-logical project with deep aesthetic concerns (education of the senses in close noticing) and political intentions (a democracy of worldly things). The book echoes post-Freudian developments in psychoanalysis that avoid the mysticism of symbol systems to work rather with everyday signs and linguistic registers such as embodied metaphors, keeping the focus on known and sensed phenomena rather than abstractions.
Educating Doctors’ Senses Through the Medical Humanities: "How Do I Look?" uses the medical diagnostic method to identify a chronic symptom in medical culture: the unintentional production of insensibility through compulsory mis- education. číst celé
This book critically analyses how politics and power affect the ways that medicine is taught and learned. Challenging society's historic reluctance to connect the realm of politics to the realm of medicine, Medical Education, Politics and Social Justice: The Contradiction Cure emphasizes the need for medical students to engage with social justice issues, including global health crises resulting from the climate emergency, and the health implications of widening social inequality. Arguing for an increased focus on community-based learning, rather than acute care, this innovative text maps the territory of medicine's contradictory engagement with politics as a springboard for creative curriculum design. It demonstrates why the socially disempowered - such as political and climate refugees, the homeless, or those without health insurance should be primary subjects of attention for medical students, while exploring how political engagement can be refined, sharp, cultivated and creative, engaging imagination and demanding innovation Exploring how the medical humanities can promote engagement with politics to improve medical education, this book is a ground-breaking and inspiring contribution. It is an essential read for all those with a focus on medical education and medical humanities, as well as medical and healthcare students with an interest in the social determinants of health.
Exploring the impact of literary devices like metaphors, similes, and aphorisms, this book examines their potential to positively influence medical culture and enhance the doctor-patient relationship. It delves into how these figures of speech can foster better communication and understanding, ultimately promoting a healthier dynamic in healthcare interactions.
The ultimate enrichment and survival guide for Foundation Programme doctors, this book provides time-tested advice and the latest information on every aspect of a junior doctor's life - from clinical transitions, to coping with stress, enhancing self-care and protecting personal and professional relationships.
In Portfolio To Go, Allan D. Peterkin insists that reflective capacity, critical thinking, creative expression, and narrative competence are attributes that should be developed in every health professional.
How the medical humanities can shape better doctors
The book explores the emerging field of critical medical humanities within medical education, emphasizing its importance in curriculum integration. It features various case studies and practical examples that illustrate how medical humanities can enhance understanding and practice in healthcare. By providing actionable insights, it aims to enrich the educational experience for medical students and professionals alike.
Focusing on the dynamics of patient-doctor interactions, this publication advocates for a team-oriented approach to communication that transcends technical jargon. By emphasizing collaboration and inclusivity, it highlights how such a method can enhance patient outcomes and safety within clinical environments.