Humanitas: Readings in the Development of the Medical Humanities

by Brian Dolan

This reader reprints critical essays published over the course of a 100-year history that grapple with the challenges of defining and justifying the presence of humanities instruction in medical education. It provides insights to some of the newer approaches that branch out from the familiar subjects of history and literature to include theater, art, poetry, and disability studies. With a comprehensive historiographical introduction as well as prefaces...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0988986574
• ISBN13: 9780988986572
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: University of California Medical Humanities P
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"