In recent decades, both medical humanities and medical history have emerged as rich and varied sub-disciplines. Medicine, Health and the Arts is a collection of

The field of the medical humanities is developing rapidly, however, there has also been parallel concern from sceptics that the value of medical humanities educ

This book explores how the medical has defined us: that is, the ways in which perspectives of medicine and health have affected understandings of what it means

"This book examines the phenomenon of physician-authors. Focusing on the books that contemporary doctors write "the stories that they tell" as the contributors

This book critically analyses how politics and power affect the ways that medicine is taught and learned. Challenging society’s historic reluctance to connect