Rethinking Medical Humanities: Perspectives from the Arts and the Social Sciences

by Rinaldo F. Canalis †, Valeria Finucci, Massimo Ciavolella

Medical Humanities may be broadly conceptualized as a discipline wherein medicine and its specialties intersect with those of the humanities and social sciences. As such it is a hybrid area of study where the impact of disease and healing science on culture is assessed and expressed in the particular language of the disciplines concerned with the human experience. However, as much as at first sight this definition appears to be clear, it does not...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110788004
• ISBN13: 9783110788006
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 435 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.9" x 9.6"