Robert J Marshall
Biographic Data
| ID | 3965992 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert J Marshall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert J |
| FAMILY NAME | Marshall |
| SIGNATURE | MARSHALL R J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-0156-0840 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1953 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Whistleblowing in medicine and in Homer's Iliad
Thinking with Homer', or drawing creatively on themes and scenes from Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, can help us to better understand medical culture and practice. One current, pressing, issue is the role of the whistleblower, who recognises and exposes perceived poor practice or ethical transgressions that compromise patient care and safety. Once, whistleblowers were ostracised where medical culture closed ranks. However, in a new era of public acco…
He drove forward with a yell
We use Homer and Sun Tzu as a background to better understand and reformulate confrontation, anger and violence in medicine, contrasting an unproductive 'love of war' with a productive 'art of war' or 'art of strategy'. At first glance, it is a paradox that the healing art is not pacific, but riddled with militaristic language and practices. On closer inspection, we find good reasons for this cultural paradox yet regret its presence. Drawing on i…
Lost in translation. Homer in English; the patient's story in medicine
In a series of previous articles, we have considered how we might reconceptualise central themes in medicine and medical education through 'thinking with Homer'. This has involved using textual approaches, scenes and characters from the Iliad and Odyssey for rethinking what is a 'communication skill', and what do we mean by 'empathy' in medical practice; in what sense is medical practice formulaic, like a Homeric 'song'; and what is lyrical about…
The embodiment of lyricism in medicine and Homer
Improving the quality of communication between doctors and their patients and colleagues is of vital importance. Poor communication, especially within and across clinical teams working around patients in pathways of care, leads to avoidable medical error, where an unacceptable number of patients are severely harmed or die each year. The figures from such iatrogenesis have now reached epidemic proportions, constituting one of the major killers of …
Sing, Muse
This paper progresses the original argument of Richard Ratzan that formal presentation of the medical case history follows a Homeric oral-formulaic tradition.The everyday work routines of doctors involve a ritual poetics, where the language of recounting the patient’s ‘history’ offers an explicitly aesthetic enactment or performance that can be appreciated and given meaning within the historical tradition of Homeric oral poetry and the modernist …
The death of Hector
Empathy is thought a desirable quality in doctors as a key component of communication skills and professionalism. It is therefore thought desirable to teach it to medical students. Yet empathy is a quality whose essence is difficult to capture but easy to enact. We problematise empathy in an era where empathy has been literalised and instrumentalised, including its measurement. Even if we could agree a universally acceptable definition of empathy…
Under the Microscope
Putting it bluntly
In current undergraduate medical curricula, much emphasis is placed on learning the skills of communication. This paper looks at Homer's Iliad and argues that from it we may learn that our skills can be mechanistic, shallow and simplistic. Homer was regarded in the Greek and Roman world as the father of rhetoric. This reputation rested greatly on book 9 of the Iliad, the embassy from the Greek leaders to the bitter, wrathful Achilles. The mission…
Toward an Aesthetic Medicine
Autonomy and Sovereignty in the Era of Global Restructuring
In the lexicon of the era of global restructuring, the nature of political community and sovereign power has been thrown into question. In much of the current literature, globalization has become associated with a crisis of the territorial nation-state. Globalization, it is argued, is stimulating a re-articulation of political space in which the notions of sovereignty and democracy are being detached from their traditional rootedness in the natio…
Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke in naturalistic settings
BACKGROUND. Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) has been identified as a risk factor for chronic disease among nonsmokers. Results of epidemiological surveys suggest that the majority of nonsmokers have regular ETS exposure. However, little is known about the topography of exposure. METHODS. An exposure diary was used by 186 nonsmokers to self-monitor ETS exposure over a 7-day period. Subjects also completed a questionnaire that assesse…
Physician Career Outcomes and the Process of Medical Education
Robert J. Marshall, Jr., John P. Fulton, Albert F. Wessen, Physician Career Outcomes and the Process of Medical Education, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 19, No. 2 (Jun., 1978), pp. 124-138
Sounding in the Grounds of the School in Jerusalem December, 1958-April, 1959
Jeremiah Chronologically Arranged, Translated, and Interpreted . Elmer A. Leslie
The Gospel of God . Anders Nygren , L. J. Trinterud
Putting it bluntly
In current undergraduate medical curricula, much emphasis is placed on learning the skills of communication. This paper looks at Homer's Iliad and argues that from it we may learn that our skills can be mechanistic, shallow and simplistic. Homer was regarded in the Greek and Roman world as the father of rhetoric. This reputation rested greatly on book 9 of the Iliad, the embassy from the Greek leaders to the bitter, wrathful Achilles. The mission…
Physician Career Outcomes and the Process of Medical Education
Robert J. Marshall, Jr., John P. Fulton, Albert F. Wessen, Physician Career Outcomes and the Process of Medical Education, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 19, No. 2 (Jun., 1978), pp. 124-138
Sing, Muse
This paper progresses the original argument of Richard Ratzan that formal presentation of the medical case history follows a Homeric oral-formulaic tradition.The everyday work routines of doctors involve a ritual poetics, where the language of recounting the patient’s ‘history’ offers an explicitly aesthetic enactment or performance that can be appreciated and given meaning within the historical tradition of Homeric oral poetry and the modernist …
He drove forward with a yell
We use Homer and Sun Tzu as a background to better understand and reformulate confrontation, anger and violence in medicine, contrasting an unproductive 'love of war' with a productive 'art of war' or 'art of strategy'. At first glance, it is a paradox that the healing art is not pacific, but riddled with militaristic language and practices. On closer inspection, we find good reasons for this cultural paradox yet regret its presence. Drawing on i…
Lost in translation. Homer in English; the patient's story in medicine
In a series of previous articles, we have considered how we might reconceptualise central themes in medicine and medical education through 'thinking with Homer'. This has involved using textual approaches, scenes and characters from the Iliad and Odyssey for rethinking what is a 'communication skill', and what do we mean by 'empathy' in medical practice; in what sense is medical practice formulaic, like a Homeric 'song'; and what is lyrical about…
The death of Hector
Empathy is thought a desirable quality in doctors as a key component of communication skills and professionalism. It is therefore thought desirable to teach it to medical students. Yet empathy is a quality whose essence is difficult to capture but easy to enact. We problematise empathy in an era where empathy has been literalised and instrumentalised, including its measurement. Even if we could agree a universally acceptable definition of empathy…
Whistleblowing in medicine and in Homer's Iliad
Thinking with Homer', or drawing creatively on themes and scenes from Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, can help us to better understand medical culture and practice. One current, pressing, issue is the role of the whistleblower, who recognises and exposes perceived poor practice or ethical transgressions that compromise patient care and safety. Once, whistleblowers were ostracised where medical culture closed ranks. However, in a new era of public acco…
The embodiment of lyricism in medicine and Homer
Improving the quality of communication between doctors and their patients and colleagues is of vital importance. Poor communication, especially within and across clinical teams working around patients in pathways of care, leads to avoidable medical error, where an unacceptable number of patients are severely harmed or die each year. The figures from such iatrogenesis have now reached epidemic proportions, constituting one of the major killers of …
The Gospel of God . Anders Nygren , L. J. Trinterud
Jeremiah Chronologically Arranged, Translated, and Interpreted . Elmer A. Leslie
Sounding in the Grounds of the School in Jerusalem December, 1958-April, 1959
Physician Career Outcomes and the Process of Medical Education
Robert J. Marshall, Jr., John P. Fulton, Albert F. Wessen, Physician Career Outcomes and the Process of Medical Education, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 19, No. 2 (Jun., 1978), pp. 124-138
Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke in naturalistic settings
BACKGROUND. Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) has been identified as a risk factor for chronic disease among nonsmokers. Results of epidemiological surveys suggest that the majority of nonsmokers have regular ETS exposure. However, little is known about the topography of exposure. METHODS. An exposure diary was used by 186 nonsmokers to self-monitor ETS exposure over a 7-day period. Subjects also completed a questionnaire that assesse…
Autonomy and Sovereignty in the Era of Global Restructuring
In the lexicon of the era of global restructuring, the nature of political community and sovereign power has been thrown into question. In much of the current literature, globalization has become associated with a crisis of the territorial nation-state. Globalization, it is argued, is stimulating a re-articulation of political space in which the notions of sovereignty and democracy are being detached from their traditional rootedness in the natio…
Toward an Aesthetic Medicine
Under the Microscope
Putting it bluntly
In current undergraduate medical curricula, much emphasis is placed on learning the skills of communication. This paper looks at Homer's Iliad and argues that from it we may learn that our skills can be mechanistic, shallow and simplistic. Homer was regarded in the Greek and Roman world as the father of rhetoric. This reputation rested greatly on book 9 of the Iliad, the embassy from the Greek leaders to the bitter, wrathful Achilles. The mission…
The death of Hector
Empathy is thought a desirable quality in doctors as a key component of communication skills and professionalism. It is therefore thought desirable to teach it to medical students. Yet empathy is a quality whose essence is difficult to capture but easy to enact. We problematise empathy in an era where empathy has been literalised and instrumentalised, including its measurement. Even if we could agree a universally acceptable definition of empathy…
Sing, Muse
This paper progresses the original argument of Richard Ratzan that formal presentation of the medical case history follows a Homeric oral-formulaic tradition.The everyday work routines of doctors involve a ritual poetics, where the language of recounting the patient’s ‘history’ offers an explicitly aesthetic enactment or performance that can be appreciated and given meaning within the historical tradition of Homeric oral poetry and the modernist …
The embodiment of lyricism in medicine and Homer
Improving the quality of communication between doctors and their patients and colleagues is of vital importance. Poor communication, especially within and across clinical teams working around patients in pathways of care, leads to avoidable medical error, where an unacceptable number of patients are severely harmed or die each year. The figures from such iatrogenesis have now reached epidemic proportions, constituting one of the major killers of …
He drove forward with a yell
We use Homer and Sun Tzu as a background to better understand and reformulate confrontation, anger and violence in medicine, contrasting an unproductive 'love of war' with a productive 'art of war' or 'art of strategy'. At first glance, it is a paradox that the healing art is not pacific, but riddled with militaristic language and practices. On closer inspection, we find good reasons for this cultural paradox yet regret its presence. Drawing on i…
Lost in translation. Homer in English; the patient's story in medicine
In a series of previous articles, we have considered how we might reconceptualise central themes in medicine and medical education through 'thinking with Homer'. This has involved using textual approaches, scenes and characters from the Iliad and Odyssey for rethinking what is a 'communication skill', and what do we mean by 'empathy' in medical practice; in what sense is medical practice formulaic, like a Homeric 'song'; and what is lyrical about…
Whistleblowing in medicine and in Homer's Iliad
Thinking with Homer', or drawing creatively on themes and scenes from Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, can help us to better understand medical culture and practice. One current, pressing, issue is the role of the whistleblower, who recognises and exposes perceived poor practice or ethical transgressions that compromise patient care and safety. Once, whistleblowers were ostracised where medical culture closed ranks. However, in a new era of public acco…
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