Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities
Meaning-making Methods for Coping with Serious Illness
1st Edition
By Fereshteh Ahmadi, Nader Ahmadi
August 14, 2020
This book provides an alternative, complementary approach to the existing conventional approaches to religious and spiritually oriented coping. By focusing on the role of culture, the authors take into account the methods employed by a vast number of people who do not directly identify themselves ...
Person-centred Primary Care: Searching for the Self
1st Edition
Edited
By Christopher Dowrick
December 12, 2019
Primary care, grounded in the provision of continuous comprehensive person-centred care, is of paramount importance in the delivery of accessible and effective health care around the world. The central notion of person-centred care, however, relies on often-unexamined concepts of self, or ...
A Visual History of HIV/AIDS: Exploring The Face of AIDS film archive
1st Edition
Edited
By Elisabet Björklund, Mariah Larsson
December 09, 2019
The Face of AIDS film archive at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, consists of more than 700 hours of unedited and edited footage, shot over a period of more than thirty years and all over the world by filmmaker and journalist Staffan Hildebrand. The material documents the HIV/AIDS pandemic ...
Medicine, Health and Being Human
1st Edition
Edited
By Lesa Scholl
December 09, 2019
Medicine, Health and Being Human begins a conversation to explore how the medical has defined us: that is, the ways in which perspectives of medicine and health have affected cultural understandings of what it means to be human. With chapters that span from the early modern period through to the ...
Digital Storytelling in Health and Social Policy: Listening to Marginalised Voices
1st Edition
By Nicole Matthews, Naomi Sunderland
August 27, 2019
As digital life stories continue to assume more and more significance across a range of institutions, so too does their potential to bring into focus once marginalised and neglected voices. Breaking new ground by reframing multimedia life stories as a resource for education, public health, and ...
Dementia and Literature: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Tess Maginess
June 06, 2019
Dementia is an urgent global concern, often termed a widespread ‘problem’, ‘tragedy’ or ‘burden’ and a subject best addressed by health and social policy and practice. However, creative writers can offer powerful and imaginative insights into the experience of dementia across cultures and over time...
Thinking with Metaphors in Medicine: The State of the Art
1st Edition
By Alan Bleakley
May 07, 2019
While medical language is soaked in metaphor, and thinking with metaphor is central to diagnostic work, medicine – that is, medical culture, clinical practice and medical education – outwardly rejects metaphor for objective, literal scientific language. This thought-provoking book argues that this ...
Person-centred Health Care: Balancing the Welfare of Clinicians and Patients
1st Edition
By Stephen Buetow
March 28, 2019
Person-centred health care is increasingly endorsed as a key element of high-quality care, yet, in practice, it often means patient-centred health care. This book scrutinizes the principle of primacy of patient welfare, which, although deeply embedded in health professionalism, is long overdue for ...
Learning Disability and Inclusion Phobia: Past, Present, Future
1st Edition
By C. F. Goodey
December 21, 2017
The social position of learning disabled people has shifted rapidly over the last 20 years, from long-stay institutions, first into community homes and day centres, and now to a currently emerging goal of "ordinary lives" for individuals using person-centred support and personal budgets. These ...
Suffering Narratives of Older Adults: A Phenomenological Approach to Serious Illness, Chronic Pain, Recovery and Maternal Care
1st Edition
By Mary Beth Morrissey
February 27, 2017
In Suffering Narratives of Older Adults, Mary Beth Quaranta Morrissey turns to the traditions of phenomenology, humanistic psychology and social work to provide an in-depth exploration of the deep structure of the suffering experience. She draws upon the notion of maternal holding to develop an ...
Collaborative Arts-based Research for Social Justice
1st Edition
By Victoria Foster
December 05, 2016
This book provides a thought-provoking guide to conducting collaborative arts-based research. Focusing on ways that social inquiry might be conducted with marginalised groups to promote social justice, the text offers chapters on: Telling ‘alternative’ stories through a variety of methods from ...
Medical Humanities and Medical Education: How the medical humanities can shape better doctors
1st Edition
By Alan Bleakley
November 08, 2016
The field of the medical humanities is developing rapidly, however, there has also been parallel concern from sceptics that the value of medical humanities educational interventions should be open to scrutiny and evidence. Just what is the impact of medical humanities provision upon the education ...