Medical Humanities

The English term Medical Humanities describes an interdisciplinary field at the interface between medicine and the humanities . The term humanities is an Anglo-Saxon scientific categorization that includes all sciences relating to people (as individuals or collectives). The category is broader than the narrower category of human sciences ; This includes both these (such as psychology , pedagogy , anthropology , geography etc.) as well as the humanities including philosophy , history , language , culture , religion and literature , art history and sociology , social and economic sciences . The arts ( literature , theater , film and visual arts ) are also counted among the humanities.

Origin, goals

The aim of the Medical Humanities is to train medical professionals through creative activities and intellectual engagement with the above-mentioned disciplines. By dealing with the Medical Humanities the reflection of one's own work, the understanding of arguments outside the subject, the perspective of patients, the interdisciplinary work and ethical decision-making should be experienced and learned what should contribute to medical training and practice. The Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences and the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences have been running a joint project to promote medical humanities in Switzerland since 2012.

Scientific institutions, institutes

• The American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
• McGovern Center for Humanities & Ethics at the University of Texas Medical School , founded in 2004
• Leeds Center for Medical Humanities , University of Leeds , founded in 2012 as an interdisciplinary collaboration between the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Medicine and Health
• Center for Medical Humanities at the University of Durham , founded in 2002
• Center for the Humanities and Health at King's College London , founded in 2010
• Center for Medical Humanities at the University of Aberdeen
• Program in Medical Humanities and Arts at the University of California , Irvine School of Medicine
• Sydney Center for Medical Humanities , University of Sydney
• Center for the Humanities and Medicine at the University of Hong Kong , introduced in 2012
• Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics at Stony Brook University , founded in 2008
• Division of Medical Humanities at Langone at New York University School of Medicine, Langone Medical Center
• Medical Humanities Research Center at the University of Glasgow
• Center for Medical Humanities at the University of Zurich , founded in 2014
• Center for Community Dialogue and Change is an organization in Bengaluru , India, founded in 2011. An improved doctor-patient relationship is to be developed through the theater of the oppressed method
• Literature, Arts and Medicine Database (LitMed) at New York University School of Medicine, begun 1993

First professorship for medical humanities in Germany

The first professorship for Medical Humanities in Germany was established by the Charité in the 2015/16 winter semester . This was taken over by the director of the Institute for the History and Ethics of Medicine at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf , Heinz-Peter Schmiedebach .

Magazines

• Medical Humanities published by BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, London
• Journal of Medical Humanities at Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland
• Eä - Journal of Medical Humanities & Social Studies of Science and Technology at ISO-CYTE (Research Center on Society, Health, Science and Technology)
• Journal of Medicine and Philosophy at Oxford University Press
• Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics at Springer, Netherlands

See also

• Bioethics
• Medical ethics
• Biopolitics
• Disability Studies
• Health communication
• History of medicine
• Medical journalism
• Medical theory
• Public health

literature

• Monica Greco: Logics of Interdisciplinarity. The case of Medical Humanities . In: Andrew Barry, Georgina Born (Eds.): Interdisciplinarity. Reconfiguration of the social and natural sciences . Routledge, London 2013, ISBN 978-0-415-57892-9 , pp. 226-246.
• Deborah Kirklin and Ruth Richardson (Eds.): Medical Humanities. A practical introduction . Royal College of Physicians of London, London 2001, ISBN 1-86016-1472 .
• "Medical Humanities": On the importance of the humanities and social sciences for the medical and health professions . In: Swiss Academies of Sciences and Humanities (Ed.): Swiss Academies Communications , 9th year, No. 5, 2014 (PDF) .
• Nikola Biller-Andorno and Johann AR Roduit: "Medical Humanities in Switzerland: moving Forward". In: Swiss Medical Journal . Volume 97 (No. 42), 2016, p. 1466 f. (PDF) .

Web links

• Medical Humanities (BMJ Blog)
• Center for Medical Humanities, Durham University (Blog, Durham University )
• Medicinae Humanistica (Blog)
• The Doctor: A Seminal Video for Cinemeducation by Matthew Alexander, PhD Family Medicine 2002
• Cinemeducation
• Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database at NYU School of Medicine

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Felice Aull: Medical Humanities . In: Medical Humanities Community . New York University School of Medicine. Retrieved May 25, 2011.
2. ^ D Kirklin: The Center for Medical Humanities, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London, England. . In: Academic Medicine . 78, No. 10, October 2003, pp. 1048-53. doi : 10.1097 / 00001888-200310000-00023 . PMID 14534108 .
3. ↑ Belinda Jack : The rise of the medical humanities . In: The Times Higher Education , Jan. 22, 2015.
4. ↑ Swiss Academies: website for the project
5. ^ Communication from the University of Zurich dated May 6, 2014.
6. ^ Website of the center , accessed on July 14, 2018.
7. ^ Center for Community Dialogue website
8. ^ First professorship for Medical Humanities in Germany , accessed on November 26, 2016.