H M Evans

Biographic Data

ID6728211
NAMEH M Evans
GIVEN NAMESH M
FAMILY NAMEEvans
SIGNATUREEVANS H M
AFFILIATIONSDurham University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS5
WORKS AS AUTHOR13
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2002
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
H-INDEX1

  • Medicine, the body and an invitation to wonder

    H M EvansARTICLEMedical Humanities2016

    There is, I think, a resonance between being a patient and having a greater sense of wonder at things in the world around us: a sense of wonder at things that become, briefly and intermittently, intensely and newly present. As with experiences of art, or of humour, or of love, or of strong ethical motivation, in experiences of wonder it seems to me that we live more intensely. And if it is a good thing to live, then perhaps living intensely may, …

  • Wonder and the Patient

    Open AccessH M EvansARTICLEJournal of Medical Humanities2015

    Is it possible to distinguish, as sociologist Arthur Frank proposes, an 'ideal of wonder' within which ill persons could recover some of their former sense of life and flourishing, even within the constraints of ill-health? Beyond this, are there more general benefits in terms of health and well-being that could accrue from cultivating an openness to wonder? In this paper I will first outline and defend a notion of wonder that gives philosophical…

  • Ten years of medical humanities

    H M Evans, David Greaves et al.ARTICLEMedical Humanities2010

    [Graphic][1] ![Graphic][2] A characteristic feature of the emergence of new subdisciplines is the development of a journal, and it might seem that this is what happened when Medical Humanities first appeared on the scene 10 years ago. But an examination of the history of medical humanities shows that it does not fit so readily into this simple pattern. The term ‘medical humanities’ was coined in the United States in the 1960s, but gained currency…

  • Affirming the Existential within Medicine

    Open AccessH M EvansARTICLEJournal of Medical Humanities2008

  • Medicine and Music

    Open AccessH M EvansARTICLEJournal of Medical Humanities2007

  • A “core curriculum” for the medical humanities

    H M Evans, R J MacnaughtonARTICLEMedical Humanities2006References: 2

    If the number of references generated by a search using the ubiquitous Google is any guide of popularity, then the notion of a “core curriculum”—with no further specification—is a popular one indeed, with some 6.3 million hits proclaimed. This disabling quantity can be made fractionally more manageable by specifying it more closely; restricting the search to references expressly involving medicine brings the number down to a mere million, and add…

  • Why pay attention to the artist

    R J Macnaughton, H M EvansARTICLEMedical Humanities2005

    The perspective of the artist within medical humanities is part of the focus for this year’s Association for Medical Humanities conference A major part of the focus for this year’s Association for Medical Humanities conference in Truro (10–12 July) will be to examine the perspective of the artist within medical humanities. In part, this is being raised because it is felt that individual artists can become invisible in our field; it is their work …

  • Medical humanities and medical informatics

    R J Macnaughton, H M EvansARTICLEMedical Humanities2004

    We describe a patient with sensorimotor peripheral neuropathy and cranial neuropathy due to autopsy-proven neurolymphomatosis defined by infiltration of peripheral nerves by tumor cells and review the findings in 39 previously reported patients. The cause of the neuropathy is not known. The association with immune-deficient states suggests virally mediated pathogenesis, possibly a retrovirus

  • Should medical humanities be a multidisciplinary or an interdisciplinary study

    H M Evans, Jane MacnaughtonARTICLEMedical Humanities2004Cited by: 4

    the substantial topic ''Medicine and the humanities: towards interdisciplinary practice''. The organisers envisage the following objectives for the conference

  • Looking for emerging themes in medical humanities—some invitations to our readers

    H M Evans, David Greaves et al.ARTICLEMedical Humanities2003Cited by: 1References: 36

    Readers are invited to write about what themes should shape the continuing development of medical humanities Where are the people? I am their leader—I ought to follow them.” So cried Alexandre Ledru-Rollin during the 1848 revolution in France.1 Now it is a hazardous business for editors to conjecture about the parallels between their steering of a topical academic journal and a radical lawyer’s directing of social uprising, and even the most indu…

  • Coming of age? Association for Medical Humanities holds first annual conference

    David Greaves, D A Greaves et al.ARTICLEMedical Humanities2003

    Medical humanities first conference at Durham University In our December 2001 issue we carried a small notice announcing a meeting in the University of Birmingham Medical School, at which a new body, the Association for Medical Humanities in the United Kingdom and Ireland, was to be launched. This was a small but important step in the development of the medical humanities as a field of study in these shores, and it took forward the work of a more…

  • Medical humanities among the healing arts

    H M Evans, David GreavesARTICLEMedical Humanities2002References: 4

    edical humanities is still in the first flush of youth-if not infancy-and questions about its nature, scope, and identity continue to occupy those engaged in it. One of these questions concerns its relationship to the "arts in health" movement, and thus to the therapeutic roles for creative and expressive arts in the clinical situation. This relationship is far from clear, and on examination it is a complicated and intriguing one

  • Medical humanities'—what's in a name

    H M Evans, David Greaves et al.ARTICLEMedical Humanities2002

    The identity and the role of a new academic Association for Medical Humanities are examined What's in a name? The question has preoccupied both ancient philosophers and modern corporations, albeit for conspicuously different reasons. Standing between them both historically and culturally, Jane Austen drily considered the question through Miss Caroline Bingley's suggested improvement to the ball which her brother proposed to host: “` . . .there is…