Health humanities reader

By:

Jones, Therese (ed)

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Publication details: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2018ISBN:

0813562465
9780813562469

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Contents:

Introduction; Disease and illness; Disability; Death and dying; Patient-professional relationships; Gender and sexuality; Race and class; Aging; Mental illness; Spirituality and religion; Science and technology; Health professions education

Summary: 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.

Holdings
Item type	Home library	Class number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	David Adams Library (Royal Marsden) Shelves	WB314 JON (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		0000007306

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.

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