Medical Humanities articles from June 2001

Medical Humanities archives from June 2001

What price dissection? Dissection literally dissected.
June 1, 2001... Abstract HaMlet: Has this fellow no feelings of his business, that he sings at grave-making? Horatio: Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness. (Hamlet Act V, scene i.) [1] Hamlet is appalled by the gravedigger's...

The technological invention of disease.
June 1, 2001... Abstract Technology has come to play a profound role in medicine since the middle of the 19th century, and many scholars have analysed the role of technology in medicine. Parallel to this development there has been a comprehensive debate...

A comparison of professionals' and patients' understanding of asthma: evidence of emerging dualities?
June 1, 2001... Abstract Despite an increase in the provision of services to patients with asthma, morbidity from the disease remains high. Recent research (outside asthma) has raised the possibility that patients may develop a conceptualisation of...

The butler(s) DID it - dissociative identity disorder in cinema.
June 1, 2001... Abstract Beginning with classic Hollywood melodramas of the 1940s, cinema has maintained a prolific output of films with their own take on mental illnesses-none more so than the rare syndrome of dissociative identity disorder (DID). DID...

Imagination and medical education.
June 1, 2001... Abstract Rival and apparently exclusive views have been canvassed about the instrumental use of the humanities in medical education. The novel is seen as offering exemplifications of moral principles on the one hand, whilst on the other...

The medical ethics of Erasmus and the physician-patient relationship.
June 1, 2001... Abstract Desiderius Erasmus set out his views on medical ethics just over 500 years ago. Applying the characteristic approach of Renaissance Humanism, he drew upon a variety of classical sources to develop his own account of medical...

Medicine: the science and the art.
June 1, 2001... Abstract Medicine has been said to be both a science and an art. Many practitioners regard this statement as containing an element of "either/or". A brief look at what scientists and artists have written about their work and their world...

Poetry, interpretation and unpredictability: a reply to Neil Pickering.
June 1, 2001... Abstract In his article on poetry in health care education, Neil Pickering puts forward an argument of radical unpredictability: as we can never know in advance how a poem will be interpreted, it can be of no external use.' It is,...

Education and debate: Developing the place of medical humanities in medical education from school to the consulting room.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... In this issue's Education and debate section Evans and Greaves describe two educational developments in medical humanities. These initiatives appear to raise two important issues in the context of developing the humanities in medical...

Medical Humanities at the University of Wales Swansea.
June 1, 2001... Abstract The UK's first taught master's degree in medical humanities involves afield of inquiry that is frequently philosophical, pursuing interests and questions traditionally arising in medical philosophy and ethics, but on a larger...

Bird, Woman's Wardrobe and The Birth of Humility.(Short Story)
June 1, 2001... Bird by Gavin Yamey She sits in the armchair by the birdcage, watching the cockatiel's doomed attempts at flight. The porcelain swans on the mantelpiece are loved for their regal shine. She crochets baby clothes to the music of Val...

Unhealthy Societies--the Afflictions of Inequality.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Richard Wilkinson, London, Routledge, 1996, xi + 255 pages,[pound]17.99 (sc). Why read this book? Read it if you are interested-professionally or otherwise--in the current state of society and the effects this has on our health. And in...

Clinical Judgement Evidence in Practice.(Review)
June 1, 2001... R S Downie, Jane Macnaughton, Oxford, OUP, 2000, 212 pages, [pound]19.95. The authors define the aims of this book as being: (1) to make a case for the centrality and irreplaceability of clinical judgment; (2) to identify the elements of...

Just a Head: Stories in a Body.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Denise Fassett and M R Gallagher, Australia, Allen & Unwin, 1998, 148 pages, [pound]12.99 "I was no longer an academic, a runner, a skier or a traveller. Essentially I became just a head. My body was gone: I was no longer a physical...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
June 1, 2001... In the December 2000 issue of Medical Humanities the following acknowledgements were inadvertently omitted: Barker P, Metaphors of life and death and Richardson R, A necessary inhumanity. The original versions of the papers on which these...

A renaissance for the 'sense of wonder'?(physicians and the human body)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Medical humanities as an aspiration looks both forward and backward, seeking in part the rediscovery of a certain attitude towards medicine, its natural objects/subjects (patients) and its place in the cultural, artistic and scientific order....