This compendium of essays adds to the conversation about the place of humanities and arts
in medical education. The modern version of this debate has been going on since Abraham …

Although educators embrace the values that are nominally included in the idea of “the art
and science of medicine,” the arts and humanities have remained at the edges of medical …

In the first issue of this journal, Education and Debate asked whether medical humanities
would help make better doctors or just happier ones. 1 That question begs a number of …

The World Health Organization, National Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine,
and the Association of American Medical Colleges all recognize the arts and humanities as …

The authors of this edition's Education and debate paper were inspired to develop an
optional literature and medicine course for undergraduate medical students after hearing a …

This special issue of" Journal for Learning through the Arts" focuses on the uses of literature
and arts in medical education. The introductory article addresses current debate in the field …

The field of the medical humanities is developing rapidly, however, there has also been
parallel concern from sceptics that the value of medical humanities educational interventions …

Despite (or perhaps because of) the virtual explosion in biomedical knowledge in the past
century, there is a growing interest in including the humanities in health professions …

The undergraduate medical curriculum, together with many of the other healthcare curricula,
is under a constant state of change. Sometimes that change is for the better, very …

In an era where the medical field is revisiting its roots as a science and an art, Medical
Humanities has the capability of engaging people in conversation around the topic of …