Toward an aesthetic medicine: developing a core medical humanities undergraduate curriculum.

Full Abstract

The medical humanities are often implemented in the undergraduate medicine curriculum through injection of discrete option courses as compensation for an overdose of science. The medical humanities may be reformulated as process and perspective, rather than content, where the curriculum is viewed as an aesthetic text and learning as aesthetic and ethical identity formation. This article suggests that a "humanities" perspective may be inherent to the life sciences required for study of medicine. The medical humanities emerge as a revelation of value inherent to an aesthetic medicine taught and learned imaginatively.

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Author information

Author/s: Bleakley, Alan (A); Marshall, Robert (R); Brömer, Rainer (R);

Affiliation: Institute of Clinical Education, Peninsula Medical School, Universities of Exeter and Plymouth, The John Bull Building, Tamar Science Park, Plymouth, Devon, PL6 8BU, United Kingdom. alan.bleakley@pms.ac.uk

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: The Journal of medical humanities (J Med Humanit), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2006-; vol 27 (issue 4) : pp 197-213

Dates: Created 2006/12/12; Completed 2007/02/06;

PMID: 17096192, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)

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MeSH headings (categories)

This article was linked to the MESH Headings shown below.

Curriculum - standards
Education, Medical, Undergraduate - standards
Esthetics

Humanities - education
Humans
Imagination

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