Medicine is dominated by problem-solving; it is a profession that thrives on capability. You can't be a doctor if you don't know how to do things (" Qui ne sait agir n'est pas médecin "), wrote Jean Starobinski who studied medicine before becoming a professor of comparative literature. 1 Literature, by contrast with medicine, has to make do with what John Keats, apothecary's assistant, famously...

Sailing medicine has been mainly addressed by healthcare professionals who happen to sail. Although there has been an increase in the number of studies of various aspects of sailing over the last 15 years, efforts to advance evidence based knowledge of sailing and sports medicine face unique obstacles. Recent interest in research by groups such as Olympic and America's Cup teams has produced be...

presented and developed in a literary way—that is, embedded in a complex human situation replete with highly charged emotions. The emotional and sometimes ambiguous context that makes these stories so pedagogically useful, however, makes some ethicists uneasy. They argue that the attention given to pain, suffering, and emotion in such literary cases can distract readers from the abstract reason...

illness as demon possession continued to appear in the 18th and early 19th centuries, even as cultural beliefs about the causes of madness were moving away from a religious model to a secular one that considered mental illness as a defect or disorder of the faculty of reason. This secular way of understanding madness led to the development of both private and public asylums for the confinement ...

I have decided to address you this morning on some aspects of the relationship of medicine and literature, a vast subject on which I can only touch very superficially in the time at my disposal. Throughout the ages we find medicine and literature in close association, and even the early Egyptian papyri and the tablets of the Assyrio-Babylonian epoch have extensive reference to the medical scien...

Literature and medicine is a flourishing subdiscipline of literary studies that examines the many relations between literary acts and texts and medical acts and texts. The author examines the historical connections between these two fields and suggests that the growth and decline in medicine's attentiveness to the power of words can be used as a marker for medicine's degree of attentiveness to ...

Internet technology for distributing information enormously supports the development of medical knowledge. Various medical resources on the internet are very helpful for the doctors' self-improvement; either on education, research, or health care application. Famous medical journals have made their online version, which can be accessed at any time and anywhere. However, there are extremely enou...

The humanities and arts are appropriate areas of study within interdisciplinary medicine. Medicine has long been considered to be both a science and an art. Within each patient, the psychological, emotional, spiritual, and the physical are all inextricably linked. The values, ideas and images of individuals and culture, as well as the way the human body and mind physically function and dysfunct...