Medical Humanities articles from December 2003

Medical Humanities archives from December 2003

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Quantifying quality of life for economic analysis: time out for time trade off.
December 1, 2003... The "Time trade-off" (TTO), is the most widely used method to "quality adjust" life years for "QALYs" in cost utility analysis. In this paper we ask if it is theoretically likely that the 170 is valid for this use. The TTO consists in a trade...

Philosophy for medical students--why, what, and how.
December 1, 2003... In this paper the author's biographical choices and experiences of both medicine and philosophy are first described. Then, the concept of philosophy is briefly examined with special reference to medical education. Finally, various ways of...

Itinerary: concerning the professional and spiritual objectives of my life.(Odyssey)
December 1, 2003... In this paper I look back on my life, on what have I tried to achieve professionally, and on what trends and theories I have opposed. Next I discuss the convictions and considerations that constituted the building blocks for the spiritual...

Who's speaking?(Opening the word hoard)
December 1, 2003... When you read, who is speaking to you? A novel or poem is always told by a specific voice--the voice of the narrator: that narrator is a fictional character, whether they reveal themselves or not. Whose is the narrator's voice in any...

Elegy for general practice.(Opening the word hoard)(Poem)
December 1, 2003... Mae loan wedi marw heddiw. loan died today. His wife, a widow now, sobs on my shoulder. As I drive home, Snow tipped Welsh hills glow pink, And the sun slips away. This land is full of ghosts, And the...

Consensus and consent.(Opening the word hoard)
December 1, 2003... Yesterday's family conference brought us at last to consensus. There were twelve of us present in 94B's family room: two faculty doctors, our haematology fellow, a senior paediatric resident, two paediatric interns, three nurses, a social...

One of the girls.(Opening the word hoard)(Short Story)
December 1, 2003... I am fat and I fill the bed. It creaks when I move around. I hardly ever get off it, except when I waddle to the toilet and waddle back. I lie in the corner bed, by the window, far away from you. I hate you nurses. You are young and slim. You...

Portrait by a patient.(Opening the word hoard)
December 1, 2003... He's always the same: late; slightly scruffy--never doing up his top button; tie not straight or not there. I like the doctor to be neat, to look as if he's bothered. And it sometimes smells so stale in there, especially if a lot of people...

Jug.(Opening the word hoard)(Short Story)
December 1, 2003... A terracotta jug sits on a stone floor, in a dark space. A dim light illuminates the spot on which it sits. The jug ponders its existence in the world. It surveys the gloominess of its surroundings. Why am I here? Who am I? What am I? The...

Editorial: medical students and arts and humanities research--fostering creativity, inquisitiveness, and lateral thinking.(Education and debate)(Editorial)
December 1, 2003... In the first issue of this journal, Education and Debate asked whether medical humanities would help make better doctors or just happier ones. (1) That question begs a number of others, among them: what is a good doctor, what attributes might...

Researching medicine in context: the Arts and Humanities Medical Scholars Program.(Education And Debate)
December 1, 2003... In 2000, the Arts and Humanities Medical Scholars Program at Stanford University School of Medicine issued its first grants to medical students interested in researching an area of the medical arts or humanities in depth. To date, 34 projects...

Medicine and Art.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... Edited by A E H Emery, M L H Emery. Royal Society of Medicine Press, 2003, (hbk), pp 112 + x. ISBN 1853155012 Alan and Marcia Emery have compiled a captivating collection of 53 colour plates of health care practitioners and their...