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  • The Recovery of Beauty: Arts, Culture, Medicine

    by Corinne Saunders, David Fuller ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the complex and conflicted topic of beauty in cultural, arts and medicine, looking back through the long cultural history of beauty, and asking whether it is possible to 'recover beauty'. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Medical Humanities Companion

    v. 1

    by Martyn Evans, Rolf Ahlzen, Iona Heath, Jane MacNaughton ...
    The phrase 'medical humanities' has a currency that is wider than any agreement as to what it means, though those engaged in the field usually know what they are attempting. This volume examines the idea of 'symptom' as a route to understanding the structure of clinical practice. Actual symptoms are always experienced by real, actual individuals - however much those experiences are mediated by ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Medical Humanities Companion, Volume 4

    by Jill Gordon, Jane MacNaughton, Carl Edvard Rudeback ...
    This fourth volume in the Companion to Medical Humanities series contemplates the challenge of the prognosis, of looking ahead, wondering what will happen, and attempting to make sense of life and death. ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Bioethics and the Humanities

    Attitudes and Perceptions

    by Robin Downie, Jane Macnaughton ...
    Series series Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
    Critiquing many areas of medical practice and research whilst making constructive suggestions about medical education, this book extends the scope of medical ethics beyond sole concern with regulation.Illustrating some humanistic ways of understanding patients, this volume explores the connections between medical ethics, healthcare and subjects, such as philosophy, literature, creative writing and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine

    Classical to Contemporary

    Edited by David Fuller, Corinne Saunders, Jane Macnaughton ...
    Series series Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
    This open access book studies breath and breathing in literature and culture and provides crucial insights into the history of medicine, health and the emotions, the foundations of beliefs concerning body, spirit and world, the connections between breath and creativity and the phenomenology of breath and breathlessness. Contributions span the classical, medieval, early modern, Romantic, Victorian, ... Read more

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  • Medical Humanities and Medical Education

    How the medical humanities can shape better doctors

    by Alan Bleakley ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities
    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 should be open to scrutiny and evidence. Just what is the impact of medical humanities provision upon the education of medical students? In an era of limited resources, is such provision worth the investment? This ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Values in Medicine

    What are We Really Doing to Patients?

    by Donald Evans ...
    Series series Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
    Written by a leading proponent of the philosophy and ethics of healthcare, this volume is filled with thought-provoking and frequently controversial ideas and arguments. Accessibly written, it provides readers with a timely contribution to the current literature on medical ethics, in which the concept of subjectivity is a key issue characterizing current medical humanities.Examining the critical ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Understanding Childhood

    A Cross Disciplinary Approach

    Edited by Mary Jane Kehily ...
    Series Book 1 - Open University Childhood
    Childhood has become central to socio-political debates and policy initiatives both nationally and globally. Despite the privileges afforded to children in the West, Western childhoods are no longer seen as the 'ideal' to which all should aspire. Recent reports and policy concerns suggest that growing up in the West may be marked by the commercialisation of childhood, leading to unhappiness, poor ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Beauty

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Roger Scruton ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference. In this Very Short Introduction the renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores the concept of beauty, asking what makes an object - either in art, in nature, or the human form - beautiful, and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Narrative Medicine

    Honoring the Stories of Illness

    by Rita Charon ...
    Narrative medicine has emerged in response to a commodified health care system that places corporate and bureaucratic concerns over the needs of the patient. Generated from a confluence of sources including humanities and medicine, primary care medicine, narratology, and the study of doctor-patient relationships, narrative medicine is medicine practiced with the competence to recognize, absorb, ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Flesh in the Age of Reason

    by Roy Porter ...
    'As an introduction to early modern thinking and the impact of past ideas on present lives, this book can find few equals and no superiors. Porter is a witty, humane writer with an extraordinary vocabulary and a sparkling sense of fun. Whether he is quoting from obscure medical texts or analysing scabrous diaries, dishing the dirt on long-dead bigwigs or evoking sympathy for human suffering, his ... Read more

    $22.39 USD

  • The Arts in Education

    An introduction to aesthetics, theory and pedagogy

    by Mike Fleming ...
    Do the arts improve academic achievement? What does it mean to ‘teach’ art? What should the balance of classic and pop be in the music curriculum? Should we encourage young children on the stage? How do we judge whether what a child produces is good? How do we justify the arts in the curriculum? What should be the balance between form and content when teaching art?The arts in education inspire ... Read more

    $54.99 USD