The field of the medical humanities is developing rapidly, however, there has also been
parallel concern from sceptics that the value of medical humanities educational interventions …

There is a growing need for a new kind of debate at the intersection of the humanities and
healthcare, health and well-being. In the recent past the field of medical humanities has …

What can the medical humanities achieve? This paper does not seek to define what is
meant by the medical humanities, nor to adjudicate the exact disciplinary or interdisciplinary …

Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities,
has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing …

The health humanities is a rapidly rising field, advancing an inclusive, democratizing,
activist, applied, critical, and culturally diverse approach to delivering health and well-being …

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 …

As befits an emerging field of enquiry, there is on-going discussion about the scope, role
and future of the medical humanities. One relatively recent contribution to this debate …

The use of artificial intelligence in healthcare has led to debates about the role of human
clinicians in the increasingly technological contexts of medicine. Some researchers have …

Background The biggest change in mental healthcare, the process of de‐institutionalisation
and closure of the large mental hospitals, once heralded as a humane and technical …

Purpose Empathy is deemed essential to nursing, yet interventions that promote and sustain
empathy in practicing nurses within healthcare organizations are limited. We tested the …