Boundaries of Humanities
Writing Medical Humanities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12713274 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gillie Bolton (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 131-148 |
| Publication date | 2008-05-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Arts and Humanities in Higher Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1474-0222 • E-ISSN: 1741-265X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1474022208088643 |
| OpenAlex | W2121431738 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 33 |
Literature and medicine is a discipline within medical humanities, which challenges medicine to reconfigure its scientific model to become interdisciplinary, and be disciplined by arts and humanities as well as science. The psychological, emotional, spiritual and physical are inextricably linked in people, inevitably entailing provisionality, disturbance and lack of certainty, and lack of closure and therefore of control. Arts and humanities approaches can foster significant interpretive enquiry into illness, disability, suffering, and care. Reflective expressive writing, undertaken and engaged with critically, and particularly when explorative of narrative and metaphor, can enable professionally developmental enquiry into values, ethics, identity and responsibilities. This article offers examples of reflexivity, reflection, and disciplined questioning of the narrative and perspectival nature of medical and healthcare clinicians' experience. Creative writing is a focus, as art can observe and connect from unconventional angles
Aesthetics · Art · Certainty · Epistemology · Humanities · Identity (music · Linguistics · Literature · Medical education · Medical humanities · Metaphor · Narrative · Narrative medicine · Pedagogy · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · The arts · Visual arts · Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills · Empathy and Medical Education · Innovations in Medical Education · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology
Narrative Medicine
The Uses of Enchantment
Mindful Practice
Personal Illness Narratives
On Ethnographic Allegory
On Ethnographic Allegory
Narrative Medicine
The Wounded Storyteller
Introduction
Telling Stories
Reading Bodies, Writing Bodies
Asking the Right Question about Pain
Empathy, Passion, Imagination
Proposal for an academic Association for Medical Humanities
Through the looking glass
Medical humanities
Medical Humanities
Narrative, diversity, and teacher education
Revisiting enquiry-based teacher education in neo-liberal times
Stories as data, data as stories
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.53 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2025 (15) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |