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Medical humanities and medical education : how the medical humanities can shape better doctors / Alan Bleakley.

By: Language: English Series: Routledge advances in the medical humanitiesPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015Description: xii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781138778689 (hardback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 610.71/1 23
LOC classification:
  • R737 .B565 2015
NLM classification:
  • W 18
Contents:
Where do the medical humanities come from and where are they going? -- What are the 'medical humanities' : definitions and controversies -- The distribution of the sensible -- Empathy and its discontents -- Towards a medical aesthetics : creativity and imagination in medical education -- Close noticing -- Can narrative medicine take the strain? -- Hyper-realism and the chemical regulation of mood -- Evaluating the impact of medical humanities provision.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Library Book College of Medicine and Health Sciences General stacks Library Book W 18 B646m 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available COMHS25045062
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-251) and index.

Where do the medical humanities come from and where are they going? -- What are the 'medical humanities' : definitions and controversies -- The distribution of the sensible -- Empathy and its discontents -- Towards a medical aesthetics : creativity and imagination in medical education -- Close noticing -- Can narrative medicine take the strain? -- Hyper-realism and the chemical regulation of mood -- Evaluating the impact of medical humanities provision.