Literature to heal the divide
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12691787 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gillie Bolton (King's College - North Carolina, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 97-100 |
| Publication date | 2002-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Humanities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-215X • E-ISSN: 1473-4265 |
| Publisher | BMJ (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1136/mh.28.2.97 |
| PMID | 23671144 |
| OpenAlex | W2122123207 |
| Language | EN |
Poetry and fiction clarify and illuminate the continuity of mind, body, and spirit, sometimes dissociated in medicine.They offer a rounded view of humanity, entering into hope, terror, passion, ideas, knowledge, skills, beliefs, situations, and events.TS Eliot commented that "in the seventeenth century a dissociation of sensibility set in, from which we have never recovered". 1 Fiction and poetry can help heal the Cartesian divide
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |