Med Humanities: first published as 10.1136/mh. 28.1. 1 on 1 June 2002. Downloaded from
some of the areas in which practical resources and intellectual inquiries interpenetrate …

This article is a step toward specificity, but it is only a small step. Hopefully, it will move-or,
maybe, incite-others to develop these points in far greater detail; the time is ripe for getting …

When pressed to define “medical humanities,” it becomes more inclusive than exclusive,
thereby resisting conventional disciplinary identity. History of medicine, bioethics, narrative …

In his description of the development of the history of medicine's role in the undergraduate
curriculum at the University of Birmingham Medical School, 1 Arnott tells an encouraging …

According to the first Hippocratic aphorism, written over 20 centuries ago,'Life is short, and
Art (that is, the 'art'of medicine) long'. In the intervening centuries, doctors of all persuasions …

In reality there is a wide spectrum of literature emerging which lies on a continuum between
these two positions, and collectively it reflects an ongoing debate as to the best way forward …

Proposal for an academic Association for Medical Humanities Page 1 Proposal for an academic
Association for Medical Humanities Robert Arnott, Gillie Bolton, Martyn Evans, Ilora Finlay …

Google is any guide of popularity, then the notion of a ''core curriculum''—with no further
specification—is a popular one indeed, with some 6.3 million hits proclaimed. This disabling …

WHAT IS CURRICULUM THEORY? Most people, including educators them-selves, would
reply that it is the guiding thought that results in a document that delineates goals, teaching …

A characteristic feature of the emergence of new subdisciplines is the development of a
journal, and it might seem that this is what happened when Medical Humanities first …