Justifying the existence, position, and relevance of academic humanities scholarship may be difficult in the face of chronic practical needs in health care. Such scholarship may seem parasitic on human activity and performance that directly contributes to human wellbeing and health care. Here, a possible and partial justification for the importance of scholarship in the humanities as a critical...

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...

As medical curriculum continues to experience a renaissance into the twenty first century, there comes to birth a variety of seeded programmes in which there is no concrete definition for what is termed humanities in medicine. However, while the humanities continues to play an integral role in medicine, alongside the publication of numerous articles published by medical journals, medical instit...

As both the materials and the analytical practices of humanities research become increasingly digital, the challenge of sustaining meaningful access to the outputs of humanities research becomes more urgent. Continuing technological change and new institutional pressures require a sustainable commitment to curate humanities data throughout its entire lifecycle from creation to re-use and long-t...