Deborah Kirklin
Biographic Data
| ID | 6554737 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deborah Kirklin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deborah |
| FAMILY NAME | Kirklin |
| SIGNATURE | KIRKLIN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Royal Free Hospital |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Questioning the habitual and taken-for-granted
In the fifth of a series of papers, Alan Bleakley and Rob Marshall1 “use thinking with Homer as a medium and metaphor for questioning the habitual and the taken-for-granted in contemporary [medical] practice”. The importance of being prepared to challenge the status quo has been brought into sharp and painful relief by the on-going scandals about the care, or rather lack thereof, provided to some National Health Service (NHS) patients, most notab…
The isolation, loneliness and helplessness of being homeless
One of the hotly debated questions, at the journal's recent editorial board meeting, was how to communicate, to our readers, the clinical relevance of the papers we publish. It is an interesting question, and one moreover that begs several others, not least amongst them being whether it is appropriate to expect a medical humanities scholarship to be directly, or indirectly relevant to patient care and clinical practice. Laying that old bugbear to…
Medical humanities and the on-going search for reliability, authenticity and humility
Sometimes editors plan themed issues, sometimes they just happen. With this issue it's a little bit of both. A core of five papers (four companion, one unrelated) together set out to challenge some of the most fundamental premises on which medical humanities has established itself over the last few decades. Starting with a paper by Johanna Shapiro, and moving on to papers by Angela Woods, Estelle Noonan and Claire Hooker, Paul Macneill, and John …
Bearing witness to people who refuse to be fragmented by illness
If you've accessed this editorial online then I hope you will take time to go back and look at the cover of this issue. Take time to look at Mark Gilbert's extraordinary portrait of Jarad, which is also featured in this issue's Editor's Choice article ( see page 5 ).1 If you do, then I suspect that the experience of looking at and engaging with this portrait of care will be profound, and, depending perhaps on your perspective and your experiences…
Medline indexing and trying to understand the ethical constraints inherent in publishing people's stories
[Graphic][1] For authors and readers of this journal, a significant recent development is that since July 2010 all of our articles have been indexed in MEDLINE. Indexing by this internationally respected medical search engine greatly increases the likelihood that fellow researchers and other would-be readers will become aware of a paper of interest. MEDLINE indexing also provides those considering submitting a manuscript with a widely recognised …
Ancient answers to modern maladies
Sometimes, perhaps more often than most of us like to admit, it can feel like we’re just pawns in some giant chess game. Too small and insignificant to influence the players, we worry instead about how the game will end, cherishing those moments when, just occasionally, for a moment or two, we seem to be in control of what’s happening around us. For the ancient Greeks the players of this all too often cruel game were the gods, a group of individu…
Picasso, professionalism and plastic surgery
In this issue's Editors choice
Lessons in pity and caring from Dickens and Melville
Suffering, grief, and marginalisation are just a few of the human experiences closely observed by authors in this issue of Medical Humanities. None of these are easy to endure or to witness, and yet the latter is exactly what these scholars have chosen to do. Using, among others, the prisms of literary studies, social history, and film and television studies, they ponder the role of healthcare practitioners-for good or for bad-in responding to wh…
Medical humanities
The undergraduate medical curriculum at the Peninsula Medical School (PMS) is unusual in that, from its inception, it has been designed with medical humanities as an integral part of the core curriculum. Although those designing the curriculum were clearly convinced of the benefits of this approach, little was known about how local consultants, who would soon take up roles as clinical teachers at PMS, would respond. Lynn Knight decided a good sta…
Acquiring experience in medical humanities teaching
It is important to try to share with others the understanding gained from reflecting on what we do Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action. We cannot learn men from books.1 So this is the conundrum. How do keen, but inexperienced and under resourced medical educators, follow up their growing enthusiasm for arts and humanities based medical education with high quality effective educational activities? In an ideal wor…
Metaphors for medicine
“‘ . . .before you get spoilt by it all. Before you become a fully qualified doctor, just give me a helping hand as a human being.’ (Kostoglotov: cancer patient)”1 Are human beings irreversibly “spoilt” by medical training or merely disengaged from “normal” human interaction? If what is desired is a doctor who reaches out as a human being to his or her patients then it is important for educators to know why that sometimes fails to happen. Is the …
Education and debate
He never entered into relation
Humanities special studies modules
“ ... the sensitivity of the artist may equal the knowledge of the scientist. Both have the same object, nature, and perhaps in time it will be possible for them to link together in a great and marvellous force which is at present hard to imagine.”1 These are exciting times for medical humanities in the UK, with artists and scientists working hand in hand to help deliver a more humanistic approach to health care.2 The existence of this journal an…
Living with and dying from cancer
We describe a humanities-based, special studies module (SSM) exploring the impact of cancer on the lives of patients, families and professionals. Literature, film, art and drama provide third year medical undergraduates with vicarious experience of all of these perspectives in a format that has proved highly acceptable to students and tutors. The development, delivery, evaluation and evolution of this humanities-based course are described and we …
Living with and dying from cancer
We describe a humanities-based, special studies module (SSM) exploring the impact of cancer on the lives of patients, families and professionals. Literature, film, art and drama provide third year medical undergraduates with vicarious experience of all of these perspectives in a format that has proved highly acceptable to students and tutors. The development, delivery, evaluation and evolution of this humanities-based course are described and we …
Humanities special studies modules
“ ... the sensitivity of the artist may equal the knowledge of the scientist. Both have the same object, nature, and perhaps in time it will be possible for them to link together in a great and marvellous force which is at present hard to imagine.”1 These are exciting times for medical humanities in the UK, with artists and scientists working hand in hand to help deliver a more humanistic approach to health care.2 The existence of this journal an…
Medical humanities
The undergraduate medical curriculum at the Peninsula Medical School (PMS) is unusual in that, from its inception, it has been designed with medical humanities as an integral part of the core curriculum. Although those designing the curriculum were clearly convinced of the benefits of this approach, little was known about how local consultants, who would soon take up roles as clinical teachers at PMS, would respond. Lynn Knight decided a good sta…
Ancient answers to modern maladies
Sometimes, perhaps more often than most of us like to admit, it can feel like we’re just pawns in some giant chess game. Too small and insignificant to influence the players, we worry instead about how the game will end, cherishing those moments when, just occasionally, for a moment or two, we seem to be in control of what’s happening around us. For the ancient Greeks the players of this all too often cruel game were the gods, a group of individu…
Education and debate
He never entered into relation
Humanities special studies modules
“ ... the sensitivity of the artist may equal the knowledge of the scientist. Both have the same object, nature, and perhaps in time it will be possible for them to link together in a great and marvellous force which is at present hard to imagine.”1 These are exciting times for medical humanities in the UK, with artists and scientists working hand in hand to help deliver a more humanistic approach to health care.2 The existence of this journal an…
Living with and dying from cancer
We describe a humanities-based, special studies module (SSM) exploring the impact of cancer on the lives of patients, families and professionals. Literature, film, art and drama provide third year medical undergraduates with vicarious experience of all of these perspectives in a format that has proved highly acceptable to students and tutors. The development, delivery, evaluation and evolution of this humanities-based course are described and we …
Metaphors for medicine
“‘ . . .before you get spoilt by it all. Before you become a fully qualified doctor, just give me a helping hand as a human being.’ (Kostoglotov: cancer patient)”1 Are human beings irreversibly “spoilt” by medical training or merely disengaged from “normal” human interaction? If what is desired is a doctor who reaches out as a human being to his or her patients then it is important for educators to know why that sometimes fails to happen. Is the …
Acquiring experience in medical humanities teaching
It is important to try to share with others the understanding gained from reflecting on what we do Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action. We cannot learn men from books.1 So this is the conundrum. How do keen, but inexperienced and under resourced medical educators, follow up their growing enthusiasm for arts and humanities based medical education with high quality effective educational activities? In an ideal wor…
Medical humanities
The undergraduate medical curriculum at the Peninsula Medical School (PMS) is unusual in that, from its inception, it has been designed with medical humanities as an integral part of the core curriculum. Although those designing the curriculum were clearly convinced of the benefits of this approach, little was known about how local consultants, who would soon take up roles as clinical teachers at PMS, would respond. Lynn Knight decided a good sta…
Lessons in pity and caring from Dickens and Melville
Suffering, grief, and marginalisation are just a few of the human experiences closely observed by authors in this issue of Medical Humanities. None of these are easy to endure or to witness, and yet the latter is exactly what these scholars have chosen to do. Using, among others, the prisms of literary studies, social history, and film and television studies, they ponder the role of healthcare practitioners-for good or for bad-in responding to wh…
Ancient answers to modern maladies
Sometimes, perhaps more often than most of us like to admit, it can feel like we’re just pawns in some giant chess game. Too small and insignificant to influence the players, we worry instead about how the game will end, cherishing those moments when, just occasionally, for a moment or two, we seem to be in control of what’s happening around us. For the ancient Greeks the players of this all too often cruel game were the gods, a group of individu…
Picasso, professionalism and plastic surgery
In this issue's Editors choice
Bearing witness to people who refuse to be fragmented by illness
If you've accessed this editorial online then I hope you will take time to go back and look at the cover of this issue. Take time to look at Mark Gilbert's extraordinary portrait of Jarad, which is also featured in this issue's Editor's Choice article ( see page 5 ).1 If you do, then I suspect that the experience of looking at and engaging with this portrait of care will be profound, and, depending perhaps on your perspective and your experiences…
Medline indexing and trying to understand the ethical constraints inherent in publishing people's stories
[Graphic][1] For authors and readers of this journal, a significant recent development is that since July 2010 all of our articles have been indexed in MEDLINE. Indexing by this internationally respected medical search engine greatly increases the likelihood that fellow researchers and other would-be readers will become aware of a paper of interest. MEDLINE indexing also provides those considering submitting a manuscript with a widely recognised …
Medical humanities and the on-going search for reliability, authenticity and humility
Sometimes editors plan themed issues, sometimes they just happen. With this issue it's a little bit of both. A core of five papers (four companion, one unrelated) together set out to challenge some of the most fundamental premises on which medical humanities has established itself over the last few decades. Starting with a paper by Johanna Shapiro, and moving on to papers by Angela Woods, Estelle Noonan and Claire Hooker, Paul Macneill, and John …
The isolation, loneliness and helplessness of being homeless
One of the hotly debated questions, at the journal's recent editorial board meeting, was how to communicate, to our readers, the clinical relevance of the papers we publish. It is an interesting question, and one moreover that begs several others, not least amongst them being whether it is appropriate to expect a medical humanities scholarship to be directly, or indirectly relevant to patient care and clinical practice. Laying that old bugbear to…
Questioning the habitual and taken-for-granted
In the fifth of a series of papers, Alan Bleakley and Rob Marshall1 “use thinking with Homer as a medium and metaphor for questioning the habitual and the taken-for-granted in contemporary [medical] practice”. The importance of being prepared to challenge the status quo has been brought into sharp and painful relief by the on-going scandals about the care, or rather lack thereof, provided to some National Health Service (NHS) patients, most notab…
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