- Part I. History and Medicine
- The doctor-patient relationship
- Consturcting disease
- Educating doctors
- Technology and medicine
- The health of populations
- Death and dying
- Part II. Literature, the Arts, and Medicine
- Narratives of illness
- Aging in film
- Medicine and media
- Poetry and moral imagination
- Doctor-writers
- Studying medicine
- Part III. Philosophy and Medicine
- Ways of knowing
- Goals of medicine
- Health and disease
- Moral philosophy and bioethics
- Medicine and power
- Just health care
- Part IV. Religion and Medicine
- World religions for medical humanities
- Religion and health
- Religion and reality
- Religion and bioethics
- Suffering and hope.
This textbook brings the humanities to students in order to evoke the humanity of students. It helps to form individuals who take charge of their own minds, who are free from narrow and unreflective forms of thought, and who act compassionately in their public and professional worlds. Using concepts and methods of the humanities, the book addresses undergraduate and premed students, medical students, and students in other health professions, as well as physicians and other healthcare practitioners. It encourages them to consider the ethical and existential issues related to the experience of disease, care of the dying, health policy, religion and health, and medical technology. Case studies, images, questions for discussion, and role-playing exercises help readers to engage in the practical, interpretive, and analytical aspects of the material, developing skills for critical thinking as well as compassionate care.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
