Routledge Handbook of the Medical Humanities Contributor(s): Alan, Bleakley (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0815374615 ISBN-13: 9780815374619 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $266.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Medical | Physician & Patient - Social Science | Disease & Health Issues - Medical | Education & Training |
Physical Information: 444 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This authoritative new handbook offers a comprehensive and cutting-edge overview of the state of the medical humanities globally, showing how clinically oriented medical humanities, the critical study of medicine as a global historical and cultural phenomenon, and medicine as a force for cultural change can inform each other. Composed of eight parts, the Routledge Handbook of the Medical Humanities looks at the medical humanities as:
This book describes how the medical humanities can be used in and out of clinical settings, acting as a point of resistance, redistributing medicine's capital amongst its stakeholders, embracing the complexity of medical instances, shaping medical education, promoting interdisciplinary understandings and recognising an identity for the medical humanities as a network effect. This book is an essential read for all students, scholars and practitioners with an interest in the medical humanities. |