Humanities have an essential role in medical education. The current gap between the humanities and medicine has to be bridged and there should be continuous and vigorous debate about the theory and practice of medical humanities. Medical humanities is a relatively new concept even in developed countries, and is at infancy stage in developing countries. In Nepal, modules on medical humanities ha...

During the last years, in particular due to the Digital Humanities, empirical processes, data capturing or data analysis got more and more popular as part of humanities research. In this paper, we want to show that even the complete scientific method of natural science can be applied in the humanities. By applying the scientific method to the humanities, certain kinds of problems can be solved ...

Harold Short recounts that his interest in Computing and the Humanities goes back to when he was an undergraduate in English and French at a university in the former Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). There, whilst undertaking summer work in the library, he saw first-hand the potential of digital methods. After arriving in London in 1972 he took an Open University degree in mathematics, computing and sys...

The humanities offer great potential for enhancing professional and humanistic development in medical education. Yet, although many students report benefit from exposure to the humanities in their medical education, they also offer consistent complaints and skepticism. The authors offer a pedagogical definition of the medical humanities, linking it to medicine as a practice profession. They the...

What can the medical humanities achieve? This paper does not seek to define what is meant by the medical humanities, nor to adjudicate the exact disciplinary or interdisciplinary knowledges it should offer, but rather to consider what it might be capable of doing. Exploring the many valences of the word 'critical', we argue here for a critical medical humanities characterised by: (i) a widening...

This paper proposes a methodology for studying canonisation of people in history with digital methods. These canons are for the most part culturally determined. For a select group of people, there is no doubt that they merit the necessary attention, but there is a large gray field of ‘second rate’ individuals who had an impact on history of which only a small group is included in more than a fo...

The nature and scope of medical humanities are under debate. Some regard this field as consisting of those parts of the humanistic sciences that enhance our understanding of clinical practice and of medicine as historical phenomenon. In this article it is argued that aesthetic experience is as crucial to this project as are humanistic studies. To rightly understand what medicine is about we nee...

Concepts such as disease and health can be diYcult to define precisely. Part of the reason for this is that they embody value judgments and are rooted in metaphor. The precise meaning of terms like health, healing and wholeness is likely to remain elusive, because the disconcerting openness of the outlook gained from experience alone resists the reduction of first-person judgments (including th...

1 Brain, Imaging and Behaviour – Systems Neuroscience, Toronto Western Research Institute, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Mind, Brain Imaging and Neuroethics Research Unit, Institute of Mental Health Research, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, Brain and Consciousness Research Center, Graduate Institute of Humanities in Me...

1 University of North Carolina Project-China, Guangzhou, China, 2 Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, 3 Clinical Research Unit, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, 4 Centre for Sexual Health and HIV Research, Research Department of Infection and Population Health, University Colle...