Medical Humanities and Medical Education : How the Medical Humanities Can Shape Better Doctors (Paperback)

Foreword  Arno K. Kumagai  Introduction  1. Where do the Medical Humanities Come From and Where are They Going?  2. What are the 'Medical Humanities'? Definitions and Controversies  3. The Distribution of the Sensible  4. Empathy and its Discontents  5. Towards a Medical Aesthetics: Creativity and Imagination in Medical Education  6. Close Noticing  7. Can Narrative Medicine take the Strain?  8. Hyper-Realism and the Chemical Regulation of Mood  9. Evaluating the Impact of Medical Humanities Provision