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Incorporating Literature in Medical Curricula: A Case Study of Imperatives from the Vanguard of Medical Humanities
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Medical Humanities is a growing field and much scholarship focuses on the promotion of empathy in professionals. I argue incorporation of literature is crucial as it develops critical thinking skills that guard against the dangers of collective thought. A Foucauldian analysis of three literary works, my own creative non-fiction short story, William Carlos Williams' "The Use of Force," and Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward offer the student perspective, the doctor perspective and the institutional perspective, respectively, and subversive undertones offer an example of the analytical thought developed in humanities education by challenging assumptions and elucidating implicit power relations in the medical institution.
Date Created
2015-05
Contributors
- Block, Courtney Samantha (Author)
- Lussier, Mark (Thesis director)
- Fox, Cora (Committee member)
- Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
- Department of English (Contributor)
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72 pages
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Academic Year 2014-2015
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https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.28910
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