The term “medical humanities” has been coined to cover a wide field of research and
pedagogical initiatives, some over forty years old, others just emerging. In their text Medical …

Over the past several decades the interface between medicine and disciplines of the
humanities has provided a terrain of inquiry that has been increasingly cultivated on both …

Despite (or perhaps because of) the virtual explosion in biomedical knowledge in the past
century, there is a growing interest in including the humanities in health professions …

Abstract Understanding the Medical Humanities (MH) and their role in medical education is
in its infancy in India. Students are initiated into professional (medical) education too early in …

EDITORIAL 1 www. medicalhumanities. com some of the areas in which practical resources
and intellectual inquiries interpenetrate—areas, therefore, in which the evidence must be …

Medical Humanities has grown in stature and scholarship in recent years. Much of the credit
for this must go to academic humanists. Medical academics, with some notable exceptions …

Since the emergence of the field in the 1970s, several trends have begun to challenge the
original assumptions, claims, and practices of what became known as the medical …

The medical humanities have been presented as a panacea for medical reductionism; a
means for 'humanizing'medicine. However, there is a lack of consensus about the …

The definition of 'medical humanities' may be approached via three conceptions—the
humanities as a list of disciplines, as a program of moral development, and as a supportive …

The field of Medical Humanities, shaped by a belief in the vitality of interdisciplinary and non-
hierarchical conversations across disciplines, would only be sustainable if both components …