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 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 …

With the introduction of humanistic perspectives in the curricula of several medical schools
in recent years, the role of medical history in professional education warrants reassessment …

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 …

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 …

This year Medical Education is launching a new section entitledArts and Humanities'. The
journal has carried individual articles on this theme in the past but the arrival of this section …

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 …

Focuses on history and humanism in medical education. Trends in medical education;
Conflict between biomedicine and the humanities; Role of history in medical education; …

A few years ago the editor of the British Medical Journal asked me to write an editorial for the
Christmas edition based on a series of articles that he was publishing, written by patients …

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 …