Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities

<p>How Do I Look? Educating Doctors’ Senses Through the Medical Humanities 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 medical humanities to the core undergraduate medicine and surgery curriculum. </p><p>To change medical culture is an enormous challenge, and this book sets out how to do this by answering the following questions: </p><ul> <p> </p> <li>How has a compulsory mis-education for insensibility developed in medical culture and medical education?</li> <p> </p> <li>How is sensibility capital generated, who ‘owns’ it, and how is it distributed, mal-distributed and re-distributed? What is the place of resistance (or ‘dissensus’) in this process?</li> <p> </p> <li>How can the symptom of a ‘developed’ insensibility be addressed pedagogically through introduction of the medical humanities as core and integrated curriculum provision?</li> <p> </p> <li>How can both the identity constructions of doctors and doctor-patient relationships be tied up with education for sensibility? </li> <p> </p> <li>How can artists work with clinicians, through the medical humanities in medical education, to better educate sensibility? </li> </ul><p>The book will be of interest to all medical educators and clinicians, including those health and social care professionals outside of medicine who work with doctors.</p>