1st Edition
Educating Doctors' Senses Through the Medical Humanities "How Do I Look?"
By Alan Bleakley
Copyright 2020
192 Pages
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Routledge
190 Pages
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Routledge
208 Pages
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Routledge
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Educating Doctors’ Senses Through the Medical Humanities: "How Do I Look?" uses the medical diagnostic method to identify a chronic symptom in medical culture: the unintentional production of insensibility through compulsory mis-education. This book identifies the symptom and its origins and offers an intervention: deliberate and planned education of sensibility through the introduction of... Read more
Introduction
1. Medicine making sense: the senses as a system
2. ‘Out, damned spot!’: The abject in medicine, cadaver dissection and education for insensibility
3. How do I smell?
4. From Listening to Hearing
5. Medical students learn ‘sonic alignment’: the medical humanities and listening
6. "How do I look?": from ‘looking’ to ‘seeing’
7. Doing and researching aesthetic work in the visual domain
8. Touch/ Don’t touch
9. "How do I look?": performativity and identity
Biography
Alan Bleakley is Emeritus Professor at the University of Plymouth’s Peninsula School of Medicine and Dentistry, UK.
