Alan Bleakley
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3941173 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Alan Bleakley |
| NOMBRES | Alan |
| APELLIDO | Bleakley |
| FIRMA | BLEAKLEY A |
| AFILIACIONES | Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5206-7010 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 82 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
What constitutes a medical miseducation? Ten mishaps, readily remedied
In adopting reductive instrumentalism as a dominant discourse medical education can be seen to have cultivated a values monoculture resistant to innovation. This culture characteristically retreats to the safety of conservatism rather than diversifying and innovating to embrace values beyond the functional - such as the ethical, aesthetic, and political. Here - where teaching displaces facilitation of learning - training is privileged over educat…
A therapeutic intervention for an ailing medical education
PURPOSE: To articulate proof of concept in relation to a complex pedagogical values intervention for a range of medical education's historically accumulated symptoms. METHODS: Using a discursive approach, symptoms that hinder development of medical education are set out. Such symptoms rest with the instrumentality of current pedagogical approaches, supressing potential. A 'cure' is articulated - that the dominant values complex of instrumentalism…
As ‘synapses’ become ‘protoplasmic kisses’
Where medical education meets artificial intelligence
Embracing ambiguity
A curriculum innovation for a new UK medical school - Peninsula, launched in 2002 - was grounded in a period of radical pedagogical innovation in medical education in the UK during the 1990s. Part of this thinking was to include the medical humanities as a medium for re-thinking medical practice, especially how medical students might better learn to communicate with patients and colleagues, and how they might become agents of change in progressin…
Re-visioning clinical reasoning, or stepping out from the skull
THE PROBLEM: Progress in teaching and learning clinical reasoning depends upon more sophisticated modelling of the reasoning process itself. Current accounts of clinical reasoning, grounded in experimental psychology, show a bias towards situating reasoning inside the skull, further reduced to neural processes signified by imaging. Such a model is necessary but not sufficient to explain the clinical reasoning process where it fails to embrace cog…
Expertise in Transition
This is simply the best book that I have read on medical education, or, as Yrjo Engestrom prefers, gaining expertise in medical work. Engestrom’s account of more than 30 years’ worth of research in
Staying Human During the Foundation Programme and Beyond
The ultimate enrichment and survival guide for Foundation Programme doctors, Staying Human During the Foundation Programme and Beyond provides time-tested advice and the latest information on every aspect of a junior doctor's life – from clinical transitions, to coping with stress, enhancing self-care and protecting personal and professional relationships. Already acknowledged in its original Canadian edition as an invaluable resource by thousand…
Seven Types of Ambiguity in Evaluating the Impact of Humanities Provision in Undergraduate Medicine Curricula
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…
The Medical Humanities Today
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
Stories as data, data as stories
Narrative inquiry is a form of qualitative research that takes story as either its raw data or its product. Science and narrative can be seen as two kinds of knowing, reflected in the distinction between evidence-based medicine derived from population studies and narrative-based medicine focused upon the single case. A similar tension exists in the field of narrative inquiry between cognitive-orientated analytical methods and affective-orientated…
From reflective practice to holistic reflexivity
Schon's formative and influential notion of ‘reflective practice ̊s is in danger of being widely adopted in higher education without rigorous interrogation of the central notion of ‘reflection ̊s itself. This article sets out to situate the notion of ‘reflectivity ̊s historically, and to critically examine its possible forms, interpretations and underpinning values. Schon's description of professional practice as an ‘artistry ̊s (rather than a te…
Stories as data, data as stories
Narrative inquiry is a form of qualitative research that takes story as either its raw data or its product. Science and narrative can be seen as two kinds of knowing, reflected in the distinction between evidence-based medicine derived from population studies and narrative-based medicine focused upon the single case. A similar tension exists in the field of narrative inquiry between cognitive-orientated analytical methods and affective-orientated…
From reflective practice to holistic reflexivity
Schon's formative and influential notion of ‘reflective practice ̊s is in danger of being widely adopted in higher education without rigorous interrogation of the central notion of ‘reflection ̊s itself. This article sets out to situate the notion of ‘reflectivity ̊s historically, and to critically examine its possible forms, interpretations and underpinning values. Schon's description of professional practice as an ‘artistry ̊s (rather than a te…
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…
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…
Expertise in Transition
This is simply the best book that I have read on medical education, or, as Yrjo Engestrom prefers, gaining expertise in medical work. Engestrom’s account of more than 30 years’ worth of research in
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 …
From reflective practice to holistic reflexivity
Schon's formative and influential notion of ‘reflective practice ̊s is in danger of being widely adopted in higher education without rigorous interrogation of the central notion of ‘reflection ̊s itself. This article sets out to situate the notion of ‘reflectivity ̊s historically, and to critically examine its possible forms, interpretations and underpinning values. Schon's description of professional practice as an ‘artistry ̊s (rather than a te…
Stories as data, data as stories
Narrative inquiry is a form of qualitative research that takes story as either its raw data or its product. Science and narrative can be seen as two kinds of knowing, reflected in the distinction between evidence-based medicine derived from population studies and narrative-based medicine focused upon the single case. A similar tension exists in the field of narrative inquiry between cognitive-orientated analytical methods and affective-orientated…
Toward an Aesthetic Medicine
The Medical Humanities Today
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…
Seven Types of Ambiguity in Evaluating the Impact of Humanities Provision in Undergraduate Medicine Curricula
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…
Staying Human During the Foundation Programme and Beyond
The ultimate enrichment and survival guide for Foundation Programme doctors, Staying Human During the Foundation Programme and Beyond provides time-tested advice and the latest information on every aspect of a junior doctor's life – from clinical transitions, to coping with stress, enhancing self-care and protecting personal and professional relationships. Already acknowledged in its original Canadian edition as an invaluable resource by thousand…
Expertise in Transition
This is simply the best book that I have read on medical education, or, as Yrjo Engestrom prefers, gaining expertise in medical work. Engestrom’s account of more than 30 years’ worth of research in
Where medical education meets artificial intelligence
Embracing ambiguity
A curriculum innovation for a new UK medical school - Peninsula, launched in 2002 - was grounded in a period of radical pedagogical innovation in medical education in the UK during the 1990s. Part of this thinking was to include the medical humanities as a medium for re-thinking medical practice, especially how medical students might better learn to communicate with patients and colleagues, and how they might become agents of change in progressin…
Re-visioning clinical reasoning, or stepping out from the skull
THE PROBLEM: Progress in teaching and learning clinical reasoning depends upon more sophisticated modelling of the reasoning process itself. Current accounts of clinical reasoning, grounded in experimental psychology, show a bias towards situating reasoning inside the skull, further reduced to neural processes signified by imaging. Such a model is necessary but not sufficient to explain the clinical reasoning process where it fails to embrace cog…
As ‘synapses’ become ‘protoplasmic kisses’
A therapeutic intervention for an ailing medical education
PURPOSE: To articulate proof of concept in relation to a complex pedagogical values intervention for a range of medical education's historically accumulated symptoms. METHODS: Using a discursive approach, symptoms that hinder development of medical education are set out. Such symptoms rest with the instrumentality of current pedagogical approaches, supressing potential. A 'cure' is articulated - that the dominant values complex of instrumentalism…
What constitutes a medical miseducation? Ten mishaps, readily remedied
In adopting reductive instrumentalism as a dominant discourse medical education can be seen to have cultivated a values monoculture resistant to innovation. This culture characteristically retreats to the safety of conservatism rather than diversifying and innovating to embrace values beyond the functional - such as the ethical, aesthetic, and political. Here - where teaching displaces facilitation of learning - training is privileged over educat…
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