Liam Butchart
Biographic Data
| ID | 4141756 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Liam Butchart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Liam |
| FAMILY NAME | Butchart |
| SIGNATURE | BUTCHART L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics, Stony Brook University Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook, New York, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2353-8976 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Different approach to medical decision-making in difficult circumstances
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated advances in bioethical approaches to medical decision-making. This paper develops an alternative method for rationing care during periods of resource scarcity. Typical approaches to triaging rely on utilitarian calculations; however, this approach introduces a problematic antihumanist sentiment, inviting the proposition of alternative schemata. As such, we suggest a feminist approach to medical …
Narrative Medicine Theory and Practice
The genesis of the medical humanities as a discrete academic discipline engendered a need for a theoretical framework, a function taken on by the growing narrative medicine movement. More recently, scholars have begun to develop a critical medical humanities, an analytical movement that emphasises the fundamental enmeshment of the sciences and humanities. Building on Helene Scott-Fordsmand's work on reversing the medical humanities, this paper de…
Suddenly the bone snapped in two
Lloyd Alexander’s Chronicles of Prydain have garnered both critical interest and popular acclaim. Notably, the fourth book of the cycle, Taran Wanderer, is strikingly different from its predecessors, shedding much of the trappings of high fantasy for a simple bildungsroman. This paper examines the text, using Freud’s theories of symbolism, the family romance and the Oedipal conflict, to elucidate Taran’s underlying psychology and to show how the …
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Suddenly the bone snapped in two
Lloyd Alexander’s Chronicles of Prydain have garnered both critical interest and popular acclaim. Notably, the fourth book of the cycle, Taran Wanderer, is strikingly different from its predecessors, shedding much of the trappings of high fantasy for a simple bildungsroman. This paper examines the text, using Freud’s theories of symbolism, the family romance and the Oedipal conflict, to elucidate Taran’s underlying psychology and to show how the …
Different approach to medical decision-making in difficult circumstances
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated advances in bioethical approaches to medical decision-making. This paper develops an alternative method for rationing care during periods of resource scarcity. Typical approaches to triaging rely on utilitarian calculations; however, this approach introduces a problematic antihumanist sentiment, inviting the proposition of alternative schemata. As such, we suggest a feminist approach to medical …
Narrative Medicine Theory and Practice
The genesis of the medical humanities as a discrete academic discipline engendered a need for a theoretical framework, a function taken on by the growing narrative medicine movement. More recently, scholars have begun to develop a critical medical humanities, an analytical movement that emphasises the fundamental enmeshment of the sciences and humanities. Building on Helene Scott-Fordsmand's work on reversing the medical humanities, this paper de…
Philosophy (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Bioethics (1 work)