Medical humanities and medical education : how the medical humanities can shape better doctors /
Alan Bleakley.
- xii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Routledge advances in the medical humanities .
- Routledge advances in the medical humanities. .
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.