"Professionalism in Medicine: Critical Perspectives casts a careful, and at times wary, eye on a dominant force in contemporary academic medicine that appears to have been accepted as an absolute good. Calls for developing, increasing, or maintaining professionalism not to mention the current obsession with evaluating or assessing it appear with regularity in medical journals and conference programs of all stripes. The resultant literatu ..."
"Professionalism in Medicine: Critical Perspectives casts a careful, and at times wary, eye on a dominant force in contemporary academic medicine that appears to have been accepted as an absolute good. Calls for developing, increasing, or maintaining professionalism not to mention the current obsession with evaluating or assessing it appear with regularity in medical journals and conference programs of all stripes. The resultant literatu ..."
"Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire medical practitioners to engage in deeper reflection about the human elements of their practice. In "Health Humanities Reader," editors The ..."
"The nature of story and the story of nature Daniel George, Iahn Gonsenhauser,
and Peter Whitehouse Case Western Reserve University All human communities
rely on healers to elaborate conceptions of health and wholeness, and apply
their expertise for the benefit of individuals and societies. The process of "
professionalizing" young doctors in medical schools allows society to train
experts who are entrusted with developing the system ..."