1st Edition

Metacognition, Metahumanities, and Medical Education Thinking Without the Box

260 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

260 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

260 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This persuasive volume develops a novel approach to medical education and the medical humanities, making a case for the integration of the two to explore the ways in which ‘warm’ humanism and ‘cold’ technologies can come together to design humane posthumanist futures in medicine. There are many problems with conventional medical education. It can be overly technocratic, dehumanizing, and... Read more

Preface

 

Introduction:

Alan Bleakley, Quentin Eichbaum, Rachel Ellaway

Stepping out from under the cloud of AI

‘Meta’ has an origin myth

Thinking without the box

Originary sources on metacognition: Pina Tarricone and Andy Clark

The originary source on meta-affect: John Heron

Problems with conventional medical education

Overview of chapters

References

PART 1

1: Forms of metahumanism

Alan Bleakley

2: Meta-cognition and the making of meaning

Alan Bleakley

3: Metacognition, meta-affect, and the clinical encounter: language matters

Alan Bleakley

4: Knowing more than we can say: the tacit dimension and the unconscious ego

Alan Bleakley

5: Thinking outside the brain: the extended mind and metahumanities

Quentin Eichbaum

6: Heuristics and metaheuristics

Rachel Ellaway

PART 2

7: Forms of attention: the ground for meta-cognition

Alan Bleakley

8: Perception: immaculate or illusory? Whither then metacognition and metahumanities?

Quentin Eichbaum

9: Capability, augmentation, metacognition

Rachel Ellaway

10: Realising the extended mind

Quentin Eichbaum

11: Metacognition and pattern thinking

Rachel Ellaway

12: From empathy to compathy in medical education

Alan Bleakley

PART 3

13: Metahumanities in medical education: a manifesto

Rachel Ellaway, Quentin Eichbaum, Alan Bleakley

Index

Biography

Dr Alan Bleakley is Emeritus Professor of Medical Education and Medical Humanities at Plymouth University Peninsula School of Medicine, UK. He is Past President of the Association for Medical Humanities.

Dr Rachel Ellaway is a Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences and Director of the Office of Health and Medical Education Scholarship at the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She is also Editor in Chief of the journal Advances in Health Sciences Education.

Dr Quentin Eichbaum is Professor of Pathology, Immunology and Microbiology at Vanderbilt University Medical Centre where he co-directs the Transfusion Medicine Service, and Professor of Medical Education and Administration at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine where he was Assistant Dean and developed and directed the College Colloquium medical humanities program.