Medicine and other sciences: medical humanities

Medicine, philosophy, and the medical humanities.

T phrase ‘medical humanities’ has recently begun to find a place in the wider vocabulary of medical and health care, perhaps especially — though not exclusively — within medical education and within academic medicine. Perhaps it is no coincidence that this phrase, and the ideas to which it refers, have come along after the emergence of the phrase ‘evidence-based medicine’ and the ideas to which...

Medical humanities and philosophy of medicine

Over the past 30 years – starting in the United States – an interest in Ômedical humanitiesÕ has emerged. In the same period modern Ôphilosophy of medicineÕ developed. Although the medical humanities are sometimes presented under the flag of medical philosophy, there are good reasons to consider these fields separately. The first part of this fourth issue of volume 10 is a thematic section abou...

Social sciences and medical humanities: the new focus of psychiatry

The clinical practice of psychiatry should incorporate a biopsychosocial model of illness, acknowledging both cultural and social influences on the patient's experience. Medical humanities include a number of academic disciplines that complement the clinical practice of psychiatry. The medical profession, including psychiatry, has a social responsibility to study the psychosocial context within...

Social Sciences and Humanities

in Humanities , Social Sciences , and Natural Sciences