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Medical Humanities
Martyn Evans
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Description for Medical Humanities
Paperback. Editor(s): Evans, Martyn; Evans, Martyn; Finlay, Ilora G. Num Pages: 304 pages, 0. BIC Classification: MBDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 212 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 372.
The purpose of medical humanities is to improve the delivery of effective health care through a better understanding of disease in society, and in the individual. The interfaces between the science of medicine and the arts, philosophy, sociology and law interpret causes and effects of disease. The field of medical ethics is the most prominent offspring of this wider debate, yet the context of disease in the life of the individual and of society is profound and far-reaching. The influences of medicine on the humanities and vice versa are all around, yet only recently have they been recognised in the ... Read more
The purpose of medical humanities is to improve the delivery of effective health care through a better understanding of disease in society, and in the individual. The interfaces between the science of medicine and the arts, philosophy, sociology and law interpret causes and effects of disease. The field of medical ethics is the most prominent offspring of this wider debate, yet the context of disease in the life of the individual and of society is profound and far-reaching. The influences of medicine on the humanities and vice versa are all around, yet only recently have they been recognised in the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
BMJ Publishing Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
306
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780727916105
SKU
V9780727916105
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About Martyn Evans
H. Martyn Evans is a Welsh academic and Professor of Philosophy of Music and Member of the School of Medicine and Health at the University of Durham. From 2002 to 2008, he was Principal of John Snow College, Durham. Since 2008, he has been Principal of Trevelyan College, Durham. Ilora G. Finlay is the editor of Medical Humanities, published by ... Read more
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