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Books by Alan Bleakley






Thinking with Metaphors in Medicine(1st Edition)
The State of the Art (Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities)
by Alan Bleakley
Paperback, 270 Pages, Published 2019 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-367-22439-4, ISBN: 0-367-22439-9

"While medical language is soaked in metaphor, and thinking with metaphor is central to diagnostic work, medicine – that is, medical culture, clinical practice and medical education – outwardly rejects metaphor for objective, literal scientific language. This thought-provoking book argues that this is a misstep, and critically considers what embracing the use of metaphors and similes might mean for shaping medical culture, and especially ..."






Thinking with Metaphors in Medicine(1st Edition)
The State of the Art (Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities)
by Alan Bleakley
Hardcover, 270 Pages, Published 2017 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-22944-0, ISBN: 1-138-22944-X

"While medical language is soaked in metaphor, and thinking with metaphor is central to diagnostic work, medicine – that is, medical culture, clinical practice, and medical education – outwardly rejects metaphor for objective, literal scientific language. This thought-provoking book argues that this is a misstep, and critically considers what embracing the use of metaphors and similes might mean for shaping medical culture, and especiall ..."






Staying Human During the Foundation Programme and Beyond(1st Edition)
How to thrive after medical school
by Allan Peterkin, Alan Bleakley
Paperback, 246 Pages, Published 2017 by Crc Press
International Edition
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-03014-5, ISBN: 1-138-03014-7

"The ultimate enrichment and survival guide for Foundation Programme doctors, Staying Human During the Foundation Programme and Beyond provides time-tested advice and the latest information on every aspect of a junior doctor's life – from clinical transitions, to coping with stress, enhancing self-care and protecting personal and professional relationships. Already acknowledged in its original Canadian edition as an invaluable resource b ..."






Medical Humanities and Medical Education(1st Edition)
How the medical humanities can shape better doctors (Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities)
by Alan Bleakley
Paperback, 276 Pages, Published 2016 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-24367-5, ISBN: 1-138-24367-1

"The field of the medical humanities is developing rapidly, however, there has also been parallel concern from sceptics that the value of medical humanities educational interventions should be open to scrutiny and evidence. Just what is the impact of medical humanities provision upon the education of medical students? In an era of limited resources, is such provision worth the investment? This innovative text addresses these pressing que ..."






Staying Human During the Foundation Programme and Beyond(1st Edition)
How to thrive after medical school
by Allan Peterkin, Alan Bleakley
Hardcover, 246 Pages, Published 2017 by Crc Press
International Edition
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-56420-6, ISBN: 1-138-56420-6

"The ultimate enrichment and survival guide for Foundation Programme doctors, Staying Human During the Foundation Programme and Beyond provides time-tested advice and the latest information on every aspect of a junior doctor's life – from clinical transitions, to coping with stress, enhancing self-care and protecting personal and professional relationships. Already acknowledged in its original Canadian edition as an invaluable resource b ..."






Medical Humanities
Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics
by Alan Bleakley
Softcover, Published 2023 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-03-246784-9, ISBN: 1-03-246784-3






Medical Education, Politics and Social Justice
The Contradiction Cure
by Alan Bleakley
Softcover, Published 2023 by Taylor & Francis Ltd, London
ISBN-13: 978-0-367-69927-7, ISBN: 0-367-69927-3






Educating Doctors' Senses Through the Medical Humanities
"How Do I Look?"
by Alan Bleakley
Softcover, Published 2021 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-03-217520-1, ISBN: 1-03-217520-6






Medicine, Health and the Arts(1st Edition)
Approaches to the Medical Humanities (Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities)
by Victoria Bates, Alan Bleakley, Sam Goodman
Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2015 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-96018-3, ISBN: 1-138-96018-7

"In recent decades, both medical humanities and medical history have emerged as rich and varied sub-disciplines. Medicine, Health and the Arts is a collection of specially commissioned essays designed to bring together different approaches to these complex fields. Written by a selection of established and emerging scholars, this volume embraces a breadth and range of methodological approaches to highlight not only developments in well-es ..."






Medical Humanities and Medical Education(1st Edition)
How the medical humanities can shape better doctors (Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities)
by Alan Bleakley
Hardcover, 276 Pages, Published 2015 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-77868-9, ISBN: 1-138-77868-0

"The field of the medical humanities is developing rapidly, however, there has also been parallel concern from sceptics that the value of medical humanities educational interventions should be open to scrutiny and evidence. Just what is the impact of medical humanities provision upon the education of medical students? In an era of limited resources, is such provision worth the investment? This innovative text addresses these pressing que ..."






Hermes in the Kitchen Drawer
by Alan Bleakley
Paperback, 84 Pages, Published 1991 by Gateway Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-946551-61-3, ISBN: 0-946551-61-8






Routledge Handbook of the Medical Humanities(1st Edition)
by Bleakley Alan
Hardcover, 468 Pages, Published 2019 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-8153-7461-9, ISBN: 0-8153-7461-5






Earth's Embrace
by Alan Bleakley
Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 1987 by P T Pubns
ISBN-13: 978-0-946551-40-8, ISBN: 0-946551-40-5

"archetypal psychology's challenge to the growth movement archetyal psychology pioneered by James Hillman is a post-Jungian way of looking at human experience which stresses metaphor, symbol and imagination in contrast to a literal and material view. 1989 clean bright copy"






Fruits of the Moon Tree(Updated)
The Medicine Wheel and Transpersonal Psychology
by Alan Bleakley
Paperback, 311 Pages, Published 1984 by Gateway Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-946551-10-1, ISBN: 0-946551-10-3

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Medicine, Health and the Arts(1st Edition)
Approaches to the Medical Humanities (Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities)
by Victoria Bates, Alan Bleakley, Sam Goodman
Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2013 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-64431-0, ISBN: 0-415-64431-3

"In recent decades, both medical humanities and medical history have emerged as rich and varied sub-disciplines. Medicine, Health and the Arts is a collection of specially commissioned essays designed to bring together different approaches to these complex fields. Written by a selection of established and emerging scholars, this volume embraces a breadth and range of methodological approaches to highlight not only developments in well-es ..."






Medical Humanities
Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics
by Alan Bleakley
Hardcover, Published 2023 by Taylor & Francis Ltd, London
ISBN-13: 978-1-03-246785-6, ISBN: 1-03-246785-1






Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities Ser.
Medical Humanities and Medical Education : How the Medical Humanities Can Shape Better Doctors
by Alan Bleakley
264 Pages, Published 2015 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-317-67625-6, ISBN: 1-317-67625-4

"Introduction There is still considerable resistance to accepting that the medical humanities could play an important role as core and integrated provision in an undergraduate medicine curriculum as argued throughout this book. ... Instead of, for example, conceiving the curriculum as a text, and then asking to what extent is the curriculum an aesthetic text teaching an art and craft of medicine – a process approach – curriculum pla ..."






Risk and Regulation at the Interface of Medicine and the Arts(1st Edition)
by Alan Bleakley Dr, Larry Lynch, Gregg Whelan
Hardcover, 266 Pages, Published 2017 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Unabridged
ISBN-13: 978-1-4438-9888-1, ISBN: 1-4438-9888-0

"This book brings together an edited selection of presentations from the Association for Medical Humanities annual conference 2015, held at Dartington Hall, UK, that address the question: How might innovative performing arts help to develop medical education and practice? It includes papers and accounts of both keynote talks and performances, presenting cutting-edge activity, thinking and research in the medical and health humanities. Th ..."






Educating Doctors' Senses Through the Medical Humanities
How Do I Look?
by Alan Bleakley
208 Pages, Published 2020 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-429-53604-5, ISBN: 0-429-53604-6

"Recently (2018), a man was convicted in Melbourne, Australia, of practicing for 10 years as a gynaecologist and fertility specialist without medical qualifications ( The Straits Times 2018). Dan Sefton – a doctor himself, and the author of the ..."






Risk and Regulation at the Interface of Medicine and the Arts
Dangerous Currents
by Alan Bleakley, Larry Lynch, Gregg Whelan
266 Pages, Published 2017 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-1-4438-9347-3, ISBN: 1-4438-9347-1

"This chapter offers the reader an excavation, or perhaps an exorcism, of the gaps in between here and there, to explore what it is that happens in the moment of creative and clinical exchange. It speaks to 'the invisibles' of Della Fish (Fish, 2012), who describes elements, such as reflexive practices, as the unspoken and unnoticed of clinical practice. The rhetoric of 'best-practice' is littered with the ghosts of things we used t ..."



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