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The humanities and arts provide insight into the human condition, suffering, personhood, our responsibility to each other, and offer a historical perspective on medical practice. Attention to literature and the arts helps to develop and nurture skills of observation, analysis, empathy, and self-reflection -- skills that are essential for humane medical care. The social sciences help us to understand how Bioscience and medicine take place within cultural and social contexts and how culture interacts with the individual experience of Illness and the way medicine is practiced. EXTERNAL LINKS
An alternative definition of medical humanities is that it is the exploration of the human experience, in illness and and in health, through all available mediums. |
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