MHU 201: Foundations of Medical Humanities and MHU 498: Senior Seminar: MHU 498 Shay_education AND autism AND medical humanities AND Mainstream

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. In "Health Humanities Reader," editors Therese Jones, Delese Wear, and Lester D. Friedman have assembled fifty-four leading scholars, educators, artists, and clinicians to survey the rich body of work that has already emerged from the field--and to imagine fresh approaches to the health humanities in these original essays. The collection's contributors reflect the extraordinary diversity of the field, including scholars from the disciplines of disability studies, history, literature, nursing, religion, narrative medicine, philosophy, bioethics, medicine, and the social sciences. With warmth and humor, critical acumen and ethical insight, "Health Humanities Reader" truly humanizes the field of medicine. Its accessible language and broad scope offers something for everyone from the experienced medical professional to a reader interested in health and illness.

Contents:
... Brief History of Love; Chapter 42: Calcedonies; Part XII: Health Professions Education; 43. Teaching Autism through Naturalized Narrative Ethics; 44. Courting Discomfort in an Undergraduate Health Humanities Classroom; 45. The Medical Humanities in Medical Education; 46. In Defense of Cheaper Stethoscopes; References; Notes on Contributors;...