Professional nursing defines its foundation of practice as embedded in the sciences and humanities of a liberal education. This liberal education is commonly alluded to with the phrase "the art and science of nursing." Yet how do we as nursing educators integrate these two concepts? This article describes a method of integrating the humanities as part of an innovative clinical experience. A def...

The interest and accomplishments in qualitative research have been increasing in health. As a consequence, there is a greater demand for both institutional research programs and scientific journal publications. This article has the following purposes: (a) to present some definitions in qualitative methods used in Humanities and Health; (b) to compare them to the usual quantitative methods of he...

In 2000, the Arts and Humanities Medical Scholars Program at Stanford University School of Medicine issued its first grants to medical students interested in researching an area of the medical arts or humanities in depth. To date, 34 projects have been funded, including renewals. The projects encompass a range of genres and topics, from a website on Asian American health and culture to an ethno...

Information about the rate of smoking and factors associated with initiating and maintaining the behaviour is scarce in Palestine. The aim of this study was to explore the rate of and attitudes towards smoking among An-Najah National University students. During spring 2010, a questionnaire adopted from the Global Health Professionals Survey and the Global Youth Tobacco Survey was administered t...

Reader in Applied Philosophy, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, MMU Cheshire, Crewe, UK Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA Associate Professor, Department of General Practice, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Director, University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, Toronto, ON, Canada Assistant Pr...

Recent innovations taking place in the digitization technology combined with the rapid proliferation of cyber infrastructure have been revolutionizing the way of preserving, transmitting, and exchanging knowledge in all fields of science. This newly emerging modus operandi, eventually liberating the knowledge heretofore confined within the terrain of each university, library, and museum into on...

Prologue Can Humanities Be Taught? This special issue of The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine is a happy occasion for its editors. The Program for Humanities in Medicine was established in 1983 to remind medical care personnel, nurses and physicians, students and faculty, of the unmeasurable aspects of medicine. A major aim, as yet unfulfilled, was to encourage faculty in the clinical disci...

humanities is the oldest area of study that revolves around the study of human beings, what makes us human and our historical development, and what we are expected to do. this discipline deals with human behavior, human nature, social and political values. humanities comprise of various disciplines that include art, history, law, linguistics, philosophy, religious and ethics among others. all t...