Australian Humanities Review

Book Review: 'Health Humanities and Applied Literature'

Health Humanities written by Paul Crawford, Brian Brown, Charley Baker, Victoria Tischler, and Brian Adams was first published in 2015 by Palgrave Macmillan, UK. The book is a result of many years of experience of work in the field and comes at a right time after the successful organisation of some international conferences on health humanities by Professor Paul Crawford, et al. in the precedin...

Review Essays The Humanities and their Boundaries

In 1977, under the direction of former Nixon cabinet member William E. Simon, the John M. Olin Foundation launched a campaign to create a conservative "counterintelligensia" to oppose the liberal bias of humanities faculty in American universities. Over a period of nearly three decades, Olin funneled tens of millions of dollars to conservative scholars and institutions until, at the end of 2005...

Double Blind Peer-Review in Humanities

Pre-publication peer-review forms the basis of how scholarly journals assess whether an article is suitable for publication. It is of paramount importance that the process is perceived to be fair, robust, and free of bias. One of the key methods for achieving this goals is using a blind-reviewing method. Up until now, Humanities has used a single blind peer-review approach, where the reviewer i...

Humanities in Medical Education Humanities in Undergraduate Medical Education: A Literature Review

Purpose Humanities form an integral part of undergraduate medical curricula at numerous medical schools all over the world, and medical journals publish a considerable quantity of articles in this field. The aim of this study was to determine the extent to which the literature on humanities in undergraduate medical education seeks to provide evidence of a long-term impact of this integration of...

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