Rejuvenating Medical Education : Seeking Help from Homer.

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Returning to Homer's Iliad and Odyssey for inspiration, this book uses these epics as a medium through which we might think imaginatively about key issues in contemporary medicine and medical education. These issues include doctors as heroes, and the legacy of heroic medicine in an age of clini...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Marshall, Robert
Otros Autores: Bleakley, Alan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
Temas:
Medical education.
Literature and medicine.
Medicine in literature.
Education, Medical
Medicine in Literature
Greek World
Morals
Enseignement médical.
Littérature et médecine.
Médecine dans la littérature.
Classical history > classical civilisation.
Medicine: general issues.
Doctor/patient relationship.
Medicine in literature
Literature and medicine
Medical education
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Returning to Homer's Iliad and Odyssey for inspiration, this book uses these epics as a medium through which we might think imaginatively about key issues in contemporary medicine and medical education. These issues include doctors as heroes, and the legacy of heroic medicine in an age of clinical teamwork, collaboration and a more feminine medicine. The authors challenge ingrained habits in medical education, such as the way we characteristically "train" medical students to communicate with patients and colleagues; the reduction of compassion to the "skill" of empathy; the rote recital of the.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (323 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781527500730
152750073X
9781443895644
1443895644

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