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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"literature and medicine"”.
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Literature and Medicine and Narrative Medicine: A Distinction between Terms
The terms literature and medicine and narrative medicine are often used interchangeably to describe story-based study in medicine and medical education. In this dissertation, I explore distinctions between literature and medicine and narrative medicine and assert that a conflation of these terms is …
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Literature and Medicine: A Teaching Model for the Students and Practitioners of
The subspecialty of literature and medicine is significant, not only as a supplement to an education in biomedicine and science, but also as a serious engagement in the pursuit of humane feeling essential in the cultivation of health professionals. I aim to convince the instructors of medicine and …
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Beyond cultural competency: Using literature to foster socially conscious medicine
… enjoyed increasing popularity in medical schools and in continuing medical education. Proponents of cultural competency generally hold that when physicians and other health-care professionals are trained in cultural issues, there will be a reduction in race-based disparities in both the access to …
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Race in the Scientific Imagination at the Turn of the Twentieth Century in Brazil and Cuba
… at the turn of the Twentieth Century in Brazil and Cuba. The examination of scientific rhetoric in the work of Euclides da Cunha and Fernando Ortiz, as well as a large number of photographs, from this period of institutional modernization, identifies the racial variable as the conceptual locus …
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Cultivating moral medicine: Ethical criticism and the relevance of Richard Selzer to medical ethics education
In much of her work, and especially in \"Love's Knowledge,\" Martha Nussbaum argues explicitly for the essential contributions literature can and, indeed, must make to ethical education. In supporting her case, Nussbaum draws heavily upon the thought of Aristotle and the literature of Henry James …
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Physician, heal thyself: Desire and impairment in physicians' Writings
Traditionally medicine and literature have lain on opposite ends of the spectrum, but for some physicians, writing is complementary to medicine. I examine selected works of physician-writers that express the difficulties and triumphs of their journeys through their medical career. Through …
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The stories we sell: A narrative analysis of direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising\r\n
… prescription drugs. First, it explores the terms and categories currently used to understand and debate this issue. Then, it draws from the traditions of history, hermeneutic philosophy, interpretive anthropology, visual studies, and the ethical criticism of literature to develop and advocate an …
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Medicine's Eschatological Narrative and the Challenge of Elder Suffering
This dissertation uses texts and methods of the medical humanities to interrogate the troubled relationship between modern American medicine and the mystery of human suffering. Methods used include conceptual analysis, close reading and comparison of historical texts, and narrative interpretation. …