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Medicine and the humanities--theoretical and methodological issues.
December 1, 2003... Engel's biopsychosocial model, Cassell's promotion of the concept "person" in medical thinking and Pellegrino's and Thomasma's philosophy of medicine are attempts to widen current biomedical theory of disease and to approach medicine as a form of human activity in pursuit of healing. To...
Mortality and medicine: forms of silence and of speech.
December 1, 2003... Silence can be harmful to patients, their loved ones, and doctors within the contexts of illness and bereavement. I draw from my experience with my son's illness and death to discuss five forms of silence--the silence around the experience of critical illness; the silence between life and...
Principlism or narrative ethics: must we choose between them?
December 1, 2003... This paper addresses a current debate in the bioethics community between principlists, who consider that principles are at the heart of moral life, and narrativists, who see communication at its core. Using a case study entitled "The forgetful mourner" to introduce the tensions between each...
Parallel experience: how art and art theory can inform ethics in human research.
December 1, 2003... Trends in ethical research involving humans emphasise the importance of collaboration, of involving research subjects, alongside the researchers in the construction and implementation of research. This paper will explore parallels derived from another tradition of investigation of the...
Coming of age? Association for Medical Humanities holds first annual conference: medical humanities first conference at Durham University.(Editorial)(Editorial)
December 1, 2003... In our December 2001 issue we carried a small notice announcing a meeting in the University of Birmingham Medical School, at which a new body, the Association for Medical Humanities in the United Kingdom and Ireland, was to be launched. This was a small but important step in the development...
