Medical humanities as expressive of Western culture
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Medical humanities as expressive of Western culture.
In this paper we articulate a growing awareness within the field of the ways in which medical humanities could be deemed expressive of Western cultural values. The authors suggest that medical humanities is culturally limited by a pedagogical and scholarly emphasis on Western cultural artefacts, as well as a tendency to enact an uncritical reliance upon foundational concepts (such as 'patient' ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical Humanities
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1468-215X,1473-4265
DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2011-010120