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 …

Engel's biopsychosocial model, Cassell's promotion of the concept “person” in medical
thinking and Pellegrino's and Thomasma's philosophy of medicine are attempts to widen …

The arts and humanities were allowed into the British medical curriculum in 1993 when the
General Medical Council re-structured it in a paper entitled 'Tomorrow's Doctors'. Since then …

Since the 1960s, faculty from diverse fields have banded together under the banner of the
medical humanities, a term which unites art, literature, history, anthropology, religious …

Abstract The Centre for Medical Humanities is based within the Royal Free and University
College Medical School. With a student body of more than 2,000, this large United Kingdom …

These eminently practice-centred objectives require, of course, to be approached in the
spirit of what we might call ''interdisciplinary theory'', that is, theoretical reflection on …

To clinicians there are a number of striking features of the ever-evolving field of the medical
humanities. The first is a perception of a predominantly unidirectional relationship between …

The author discusses the contribution of humanities teaching in medical education. Five
“qualities of mind” specifically engendered by the humanistic disciplines are isolated …

Medicine is predicated on a view of human nature that is highly positivist and atomistic. This
is apparent in the way in which its students are taught, clinical consultations are structured …

Medical Humanities the journal started life in 2000 as a special edition of the JME. However,
the intellectual taproots of the medical humanities as a field of enquiry can be traced to two …