Poetry for rewilding the medical and health humanities

  1. González-Arias, Luz Mar
  2. Swain, Kelley
Revista:
The Lancet

ISSN: 0140-6736,  1474-547X

Año de publicación: 2024

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(24)01077-8 GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

Otras publicaciones en: The Lancet

Resumen

Medical and health humanities (MHH) offer an antidote to the highly technical, mechanistic, medical specialties that students are expected to learn, often by rote. As Alan Bleakley, Emeritus Professor of Medical Education and Medical Humanities, has argued: “Modern medicine is traditionally patriarchal, individualistic, and resistant to encouraging democratic, collaborative habits as it socializes its young into hierarchical structures or eats them whole.” MHH courses typically challenge the separation of areas of knowledge that would benefit from cross-fertilisation by incorporating poetry, music, literature, visual art, dance, and other creative techniques into medical education, as well as by introducing the analysis of textual and visual representations of illness—the traditional reserve of biomedicine—into the curricula of the humanities. At their best, MHH can help build skills such as empathy, creativity, caring, and self-reflexivity. These humanistic traits are often attributes that optimistic young medical students arrive with at medical school, but such traits may decline over the course of clinical training.

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