TY - JOUR
T1 - Medical themes in a literature classroom
T2 - An alternate perspective on Medical Humanities pedagogy in India
AU - Prabhu, Gayathri
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Indian Journal of Medical Ethics 2018.
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - This article examines the transferability of conversations in literary studies to a more sensitive, holistic, ethically informed, medical education. The article begins with a discussion of a class assignment on medical humanities in a literature course. The assignment enabled an immersive engagement with medical discourse by diverse students through different modes - through textual analysis, direct, and reflective encounters with communities of patients, caregivers, health professionals. The effort was to suggest that literature and medicine be studied as continuous shared strategies of reading and narrating lived experiences of health and illness. The insights of such learning should ideally be integral to the curriculum of medical students in India. Though the Medical Council of India's mandate for the humanities is inadequately sketched out, it nevertheless provides an opportunity to demand a larger citizenship and broader base of social sensitivity and knowledge for medical humanities.
AB - This article examines the transferability of conversations in literary studies to a more sensitive, holistic, ethically informed, medical education. The article begins with a discussion of a class assignment on medical humanities in a literature course. The assignment enabled an immersive engagement with medical discourse by diverse students through different modes - through textual analysis, direct, and reflective encounters with communities of patients, caregivers, health professionals. The effort was to suggest that literature and medicine be studied as continuous shared strategies of reading and narrating lived experiences of health and illness. The insights of such learning should ideally be integral to the curriculum of medical students in India. Though the Medical Council of India's mandate for the humanities is inadequately sketched out, it nevertheless provides an opportunity to demand a larger citizenship and broader base of social sensitivity and knowledge for medical humanities.
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U2 - 10.20529/IJME.2018.060
DO - 10.20529/IJME.2018.060
M3 - Article
C2 - 30156557
AN - SCOPUS:85063948618
SN - 0974-8466
VL - 4
SP - 35
EP - 38
JO - Indian journal of medical ethics
JF - Indian journal of medical ethics
IS - 1
ER -