Medical Humanities Companion - Couverture souple

Evans, Martyn

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1846192862 ISBN 13 : 9781846192869

Editeur : Routledge, 2008

Synopsis

The phrase 'medical humanities' has a currency that is wider than any agreement as to what it means, though those engaged in the field usually know what they are attempting. This volume examines the idea of 'symptom' as a route to understanding the structure of clinical practice. Actual symptoms are always experienced by real, actual individuals - however much those experiences are mediated by language, culture, expectation and the conventions of the clinical consultation. And this in turn is important because it reminds us that health, illness, well-being, suffering are first and foremost aspects of experience. This book asks questions - and offers answers - about the meaning of actual symptoms and of the concept of 'symptom' as a prelude to a cumulative interdisciplinary understanding of illness as a source of human need, and clinical medicine as a human response to it.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Respectively Professor of Humanities in Medicine and Principal of John Snow College, Principal of Trevelyan College; General Practitioner, Karlstad, Sweden; General Practitioner, Caversham Group Practice, Kentish Town, London; Director of the Centre for Arts and Humanities in Health and Medicine (CAHHM) and Clinical Senior Lecturer, Durham University

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1846192862
• ISBN 13: 9781846192869
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 148