In his recent article, Professor Brody eloquently outlines the story of the three ‘personalities’ of medical humanities: that of disciplinary list, programme of moral development and critical friend. I think our field inhabits all of these personalities depending on where you find it and the purposes it is being put Read more…
An extended version of the lecture given by Howard Brody to mark the launch of the King’s College Centre for the Humanities and Health has just been published in the Journal of Medical Humanities. The abstract for Defining the Medical Humanities: Three Conceptions and Three Narratives is reproduced below: The Read more…
Late this October, three of us from the Centre for Medical Humanities, Durham University, packed our summer clothes and headed West and South to visit our colleagues at the well-established Institute of Medical Humanities in Galveston. The Medical Branch of the University of Texas (UTMB) opened in 1891 at Galveston, Read more…
Jane Macnaughton writes: We’ve arrived in Galveston and have been put up at the historic seafront Hotel Galvez, which is still undergoing repair and renovation after Hurricane Ike in 2008. In fact the hurricane is very much a central talking point for everyone. All over the city houses are undergoing Read more…
Jane Macnaughton, co-director of the Centre for Medical Humanities writes: Martyn Evans and I have long had the ambition to link up with the premier centre for medical humanities in the US, the Institute for Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in Texas, so here Read more…