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The Contradiction Cure
This book critically analyses how politics and power affect the ways that medicine is taught and learned. Challenging society’s historic reluctance ...
How the medical humanities can shape better doctors
The field of the medical humanities is developing rapidly, however, there has also been parallel concern from sceptics that the value of medical human...
Thinking Without the Box
This persuasive volume develops a novel approach to medical education and the medical humanities, making a case for the integration of the two to expl...
"How Do I Look?"
How Do I Look? Educating Doctors’ Senses Through the Medical Humanities uses the medical diagnostic method to identify a chronic symptom in medical ...
The Spectacle of Global Dystopia in Contemporary American Literature
While modernity aspired to “fix” radical alienation through aesthetics by assigning an ethical value to narratives, contemporary literature and th...
Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics
This ground-breaking book sets out a fresh vision for a future medical education by providing a radical reconceptualisation of the purposes of medical...
The State of the Art
While medical language is soaked in metaphor, and thinking with metaphor is central to diagnostic work, medicine – that is, medical culture, clinica...
Identity, Power and Location
The purpose of medical education is to benefit patients by improving the work of doctors. Patient centeredness is a centuries old concept in medicine,...
Seeking Help from Homer
Returning to Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey for inspiration, this book uses these epics as a medium through which we might think imaginatively about key ...
Towards a Lyrical Medicine
This book explores previously unexamined overlaps between the poetic imagination and the medical mind. It shows how appreciation of poetry can help us...
The Heart of the Matter
This book challenges functional models for more aesthetic and ethical models, where communication is grounded in values systems of cultures. Here, com...
Alchemy is popularly viewed as a secret way of turning worthless base metal into gold, and then a precursor to modern chemistry. This is often taken a...
How to thrive after medical school
The ultimate enrichment and survival guide for Foundation Programme doctors, Staying Human During the Foundation Programme and Beyond provides time-te...
The Medicine Wheel and Transpersonal Psychology
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Totemism, Textuality and Ecocriticism
Human-animal relations are not confined to the literal animal, but extend to psychological, textual and conceptual animal presences. Drawing from a wi...
A Critical Analysis of Aesthetics and Democracy in the Clinic
"This ground-breaking book sets out a fresh vision for a future medical education by providing a radical reconceptualization of the purposes of medica...