Metacognition, Metahumanities, and Medical Education

This persuasive volume develops a novel approach to medical education and the medical humanities, making a case for the integration of the two to explore the ways in which 'warm' humanism and 'cold' technologies can come together to design humane posthumanist futures in medicine.

List of contents

Preface
Introduction:
PART 1
1: Forms of metahumanism
2: Meta-cognition and the making of meaning
3: Metacognition, meta-affect, and the clinical encounter: language matters
4: Knowing more than we can say: the tacit dimension and the unconscious ego
5: Thinking outside the brain: the extended mind and metahumanities
6: Heuristics and metaheuristics
PART 2
7: Forms of attention: the ground for meta-cognition
8: Perception: immaculate or illusory? Whither then metacognition and metahumanities?
9: Capability, augmentation, metacognition
10: Realising the extended mind
11: Metacognition and pattern thinking
12: From empathy to compathy in medical education
PART 3
13: Metahumanities in medical education: a manifesto
References
Index

About the author

Dr Alan Bleakley is Emeritus Professor of Medical Education and Medical Humanities at Plymouth University Peninsula School of Medicine, UK. He is Past President of the Association for Medical Humanities.
Dr Rachel Ellaway is a Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences and Director of the Office of Health and Medical Education Scholarship at the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She is also Editor in Chief of the journal Advances in Health Sciences Education.
Dr Quentin Eichbaum is Professor of Pathology, Immunology and Microbiology at Vanderbilt University Medical Centre where he co-directs the Transfusion Medicine Service, and Professor of Medical Education and Administration at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine where he was Assistant Dean and developed and directed the College Colloquium medical humanities program.

Summary

This persuasive volume develops a novel approach to medical education and the medical humanities, making a case for the integration of the two to explore the ways in which ‘warm’ humanism and ‘cold’ technologies can come together to design humane posthumanist futures in medicine.

Product details

• Authors: Alan Bleakley, Alan Eichbaum Bleakley, Bleakley Alan, Quentin Eichbaum, Eichbaum Quentin, Rachel Ellaway, Ellaway Rachel
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2024
• EAN: 9781032687322
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3268732-2
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, MEDICAL / Public Health, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, Society & culture: general, MEDICAL / Test Preparation & Review, MEDICAL / Nursing / Fundamentals & Skills, Personal & public health, Society and culture: general, Medical Sociology, Personal and public health / health education, Medical study & revision guides & reference material, Nursing fundamentals and skills, Medical study and revision guides and reference material, Nursing fundamentals & skills