In the era of the biological-psychological-social medicine model, an ideal of modern medicine is to enhance the humanities in medical education, to foster medical talents with humanistic spirit, and to promote the integration of scientific spirit and humanistic spirit in medicine. Throughout the United States (US), United Kingdom (UK), other Western countries, and some Asian countries like Japa...

The medical humanities have been introduced in medical curricula over the past 30 years in the western world. Having medical humanities in a medical school curriculum can nurture positive attitudes in the regular work of a clinician and contribute equally to personality development. Though substantial evidence in favour of a medical humanities curriculum may be lacking, the feedback is positive...

VOLUMINOUS DATABASES CONTAIN HIDDEN KNowLmm-i.e., literatures that are logically but not bibliographically linked. Unlinked literatures containing academically interesting commonalities cannot be retrieved via normal searching methods. Extracting hidden knowledge from humanities databases is especially problematic because the literature, written in “everyday” rather than technical language, lac...

As the title of my intervention, I have chosen “The Humanities in the Face of Postcoloniality.” You will notice in due course that I could also have chosen “The Humanities in the Face of the Other,” or “The Humanities in the Face of the Subaltern,” or “The Humanities in the Face of the Masses.” But I could also have chosen what apparently would seem like the opposite title: “The Humanities Faci...

We would like to stimulate crosstalk among the humanities in this paper, i.e., interdisciplinary investigation, and more specifically to show how humanities computing might stimulate this. We use the subjects of cultural variation and cultural diffusion to underscore our main argument that such crosstalk might take place at a more fruitful level than earlier, noting first, that culture—meaning ...

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The First International Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) was special in many ways, not least because it was the first time that the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) convened their joint conference under this new name. Held at the Université Paris-Sorbonne, Digital Humanities 2...

The medical or health humanities are in essence a form of advocacy, a means of addressing a problem of underrepresentation. They focus on suffering, rather than pathology, and on sociocultural understandings of illness and disability, rather than a narrow biomedical perspective. The health humanities thus analyse and attempt to recalibrate the power imbalance in healthcare. This article reviews...

There is now a context for teaching humanities in undergraduate medical education via special study modules (SSMs). This paper discusses the instrumental and non-instrumental role of the humanities in the education of doctors. Three courses are then described and compared. The most successful of the three is a SSM which had the following characteristics: it was voluntary, it was an integral par...

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, the peer-reviewed, full-text, and open-access learned journal in the humanities and social sciences, publishes new scholarship following tenets of the discipline of comparative literature and the field of cultural studies designated as "comparative cultural studies." Publications in the journal are indexed in the Annual Bibliography of English Languag...