Global health humanities: defining an emerging field

Global health humanities: defining an emerging field

Since the mid-1970s, US medical students have studied biomedical science to define, diagnose, and treat disease, whilst simultaneously studying the humanities and arts to broaden and deepen their understanding of the illness experience. Medical humanities, an interdisciplinary field rooted in litera...

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Published in:The Lancet (British edition) Vol. 388; no. 10060; pp. 2586 - 2587
Main Authors: Stewart, Kearsley A, Swain, Kelley K
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: England Elsevier Ltd 26-11-2016
Elsevier Limited
Subjects:
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
Adaptation, Psychological
AIDS
Collaboration
Cultural Competency
Curricula
Global health
Global Health - ethics
Graduate students
Health care
Health education
HIV
Human immunodeficiency virus
Humanities
Humanities - education
Humans
Interdisciplinary aspects
Internal Medicine
Literature
United Kingdom > UK
United States > US
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Summary:Since the mid-1970s, US medical students have studied biomedical science to define, diagnose, and treat disease, whilst simultaneously studying the humanities and arts to broaden and deepen their understanding of the illness experience. Medical humanities, an interdisciplinary field rooted in literature, philosophy, ethics, history, religion, and the visual and performing arts, is now an important part of training many US medical students.
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ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(16)32229-2