Educating Doctors'' Senses Through the Medical Humanities - 'How Do I Look?'

Informationen zum Autor Alan Bleakley is Emeritus Professor at the University of Plymouth’s Peninsula School of Medicine and Dentistry, UK. Zusammenfassung Educating Doctors’ Senses Through the Medical Humanities: "How Do I Look?" uses the medical diagnostic method to identify a chronic symptom in medical culture: the unintentional production of insensibility through compulsory mis-education. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Medicine making sense: the senses as a system 2. ‘Out, damned spot!’: The abject in medicine, cadaver dissection and education for insensibility 3. How do I smell? 4. From Listening to Hearing 5. Medical students learn ‘sonic alignment’: the medical humanities and listening 6. "How do I look?": from ‘looking’ to ‘seeing’ 7. Doing and researching aesthetic work in the visual domain 8. Touch/ Don’t touch 9. "How do I look?": performativity and identity

Product details

• Authors: Alan Bleakley, Bleakley Alan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.02.2020
• EAN: 9780367202484
• ISBN: 978-0-367-20248-4
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; SELF-HELP / General, HEALTH & FITNESS / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, MEDICAL / Test Preparation & Review, Health & personal development, Medical Sociology, Health, Relationships and Personal development, Medical study & revision guides & reference material, Medical study and revision guides and reference material