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Published on: February 16, 2011
The medical humanities today: humane health care or tool of governance?
Alan Petersen1, Alan Bleakley, Rainer Brömer
1School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. alan.petersen@arts.monash.edu.au
Abstract:
The medical humanities have been presented as a panacea for medical reductionism; a means for 'humanizing' medicine. However, there is a lack of consensus about the appropriate contributing disciplines and how curricula should be taught and assessed. This special issue critically examines the role of the medical humanities in medical education and their potential to serve, inadvertently or otherwise, as a tool of governance. The contributors, who include medical educators and medical practitioners, employ a range of perspectives for analysing the pertinent issues.
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