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Humanities (12):
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Psicothema (22)4 2010
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Study of the origins, philosophy and history of the criteria used to assess research activities in Spain by the CNEAI. The assessment criteria and quality evidence of publications is discussed. Results are presented on the temporal development of the criteria used, grouped by publication type (artic...
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PMID: 21044530
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Academic Medicine (85)11 2010
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At the start of the 20th century, Abraham Flexner proposed a number of reforms for medical education in his seminal 1910 report, Medical Education in the United States and Canada. His recommendations were wide ranging, including a strong scientific basis, use of pedagogical methods, and faculty whos...
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PMID: 20980850
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Academic Medicine (85)8 2010
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Students without the traditional premedical preparation performed at a level equivalent to their premedical classmates....
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PMID: 20671464
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This article is a summary on the intellectual production of Social and Human Science in Health concerned to the Public Health area in Brazil. It includes 498 articles and books reviews, from eight Public Heath journals consulted in the electronic database SciELO. A theoretical and methodological ana...
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PMID: 20694319
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Ciencia and Saude Coletiva (15 Suppl 1) 2010
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This article briefly discusses the teaching of humanities at the Medicine course and presents a proposal developed at the Center of Medical Education Development (CEDEM) of the Medicine School of São Paulo University (Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo - FMUSP) for the integration...
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PMID: 20640334
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History of Psychology (13)2 2010
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The author traces the changes in Russian psychology in the past 25 years and links these changes to the earlier Russian legacy of Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934) and Aleksei N. Leontiev (1903-1979). The move into the 21st century coincided for Russian psychology as well as for the Russian society at large...
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PMID: 20533768
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Regarding the main question of this study (hypothesized engineering link), the data showed some differences between the 2 groups (x2 = 2.503, degrees of freedom [df] = 1; p = 0.093), but not of major significance. There was no significant difference (x2 = 0.370; df = 2; p = 0.831) between the 2 grou...
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PMID: 20672496
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In the last decade there has been a quantitative growth in medical schools in Nepal, a developing country in South Asia. Medical Humanities (MH) uses disciplines traditionally termed as the humanities in the pursuit of medical educational goals. The subject is slowly developing in Nepal. Sessions ha...
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PMID: 20392392
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Functional Neurology (25)1 2010
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We analyze the eccentricity of the popular pianist Glenn Gould and briefly discuss the major functional hypotheses on autistic hyperfunctioning, advancing proposals for functional testing. In particular, the potential involvement of rhythm-entrained systems and cerebro-cerebellar loops opens up new...
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PMID: 20630121
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Gaceta medica de Mexico (146)1 2010
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This article emphasizes on the importance of including literature as a subject in the medical curriculum and particularly in the teaching of medical humanities. It underlines the importance of the physician-writer and the non-physician writer, who may become patients at the same time, justifying why...
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PMID: 20422939
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Medical Teacher (31)10 2009
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In general, the HIM program was evaluated as moderate or above moderate by 60-80% of the students. Content and thematic analysis of student reports showed that there was a rich variety in individual definitions, descriptions of causal relationships and suggestions for possible solutions about themes...
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PMID: 19877855
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We have presented our case that the work in is largely narrative. If that is true, then one of the goals of medical education should be to create methods of improving the narrative competencies in learners and practitioners of medicine. This final paper will explore the field of Narrative Medicine a...
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PMID: 19998735
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Academic Medicine (84)2 2009
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The humanities offer great potential for enhancing professional and humanistic development in medical education. Yet, although many students report benefit from exposure to the humanities in their medical education, they also offer consistent complaints and skepticism. The authors offer a pedagogica...
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PMID: 19174663
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Family medicine (41)7 2009
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Acta medica portuguesa (22)6 2009
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With respect to SPP, significant statistical differences were found, with Medicine students showing lower levels (mean 48.60+/-11.02; p=0.023) than Humanities students (mean 50.00+/-9.56). No significant differences were found in SOP. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: Our results are reassuring, suggesting...
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PMID: 20350463
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Problemy sotsial'noi gigieny, zdravookhraneniia i istorii meditsiny / NII sotsial'noi gigieny, ekonomiki i upravleniia zdravookhraneniem im. N.A. Semashko RAMN ; AO "Assotsiatsiia 'Meditsinskaia literatura'." ()2 2009
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Prehospital and Disaster Medicine (24 Suppl 2) 2009
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Psychoanalytic review (95)6 2008
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Substance Use and Misuse (43)14 2008
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Within the fields of social medicine and the medical humanities, chronic illness is acknowledged not just as an individually but as a socially transformative experience. The proliferation of published 'illness narratives' in recent years attests to the socially compelling nature of this particular s...
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PMID: 18568392
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Drama, like nursing, concerns itself with the human condition and finds its resonance in an empathetic response to the person-to-person connection. As part of their clinical experience in the mental health component of their undergraduate nursing course, 80 student nurses attended the play Bearing W...
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PMID: 18666909
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Minnesota medicine (91)7 2008
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BACKGROUND: The medical humanities is a broad area of study and practice encompassing all nontechnical or 'human' aspects of medicine. OBJECTIVE: This article introduces a series in the medical humanities in Australian Family Physician. DISCUSSION: The medical humanities serve three main goals: the...
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PMID: 18464968
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Medical Education (42)4 2008
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The Lancet (371)9615 2008
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We argue that philosophical and historical research can constitute a "Biohumanities" that deepens our understanding of biology itself engages in constructive "science criticism," helps formulate new "visions of biology," and facilitates "critical science communication." We illustrate these ideas wit...
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PMID: 18481587
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This paper first distinguishes governance (collective, autonomous self-regulatory processes) from government (externally-imposed mandatory regulation); it proposes that the second of these is essentially incompatible with a conception of the medical humanities that involves imagination and vision on...
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PMID: 18058207
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I think, used consciously so by management, likely suffering from the same bureaucratic governmentality that sees value in nothing-unless it can be measured....
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PMID: 18060483
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Accepting as a given that the humanities disciplines are not product or "results" driven, this paper argues that the core of an interdisciplinary field of medicine and humanities, or medical humanities, is an interpretive enterprise that is not readily open to quantitative assessment. A more humanis...
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PMID: 18064545
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I argue that it has also become an apparatus for resuscitating a hypermodernist worldview which further conceals the political drivers of health care delivery. While resistance to clinical governance seems futile, insistence on the inclusion of historical analysis in understanding modern health care...
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PMID: 18058002
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Evidence-based medicine's (EBM) quantitative methodologies reflect medical science's long-standing mistrust of the imprecision and subjectivity of ordinary descriptive language. However, EBM's attempts to replace subjectivity with precise empirical methods are problematic when clinicians must negoti...
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PMID: 18074207
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The medical humanities have been presented as a panacea for medical reductionism; a means for 'humanizing' medicine. However, there is a lack of consensus about the appropriate contributing disciplines and how curricula should be taught and assessed. This special issue critically examines the role o...
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PMID: 18064546
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Working as a clinician within the National Health Service (NHS) in England is described along with the difficulty of identifying a role for the humanities within the organisational framework. The author argues that the humanities are both marginalised and required and that the humanities can provide...
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PMID: 18058209
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We provide the results of a systematic key-informant review of medical humanities curricula at fourteen of Canada's seventeen medical schools. This survey was the first of its kind. We found a wide diversity of views among medical educators as to what constitutes the medical humanities, and a lack o...
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PMID: 18058208
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I present three epistemological stances: anti-naturalism, strong naturalism, and moderate pragmatic naturalism. I argue that the dominant paradigm within philosophical ethics has been a form of anti-naturalism mainly supported by a strong 'is' and 'ought' distinction. This fundamental epistemologica...
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PMID: 18251769
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Although a regular moderate physical activity is commonly accepted as an important heath promoting factor, the role of professional sport training is still under debate. The presented mortality analysis, concerning the period of 1946-2000, was performed for three groups of people completely healthy...
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PMID: 18369530
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Human Pathology (39)1 2008
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Family medicine (40)7 2008
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Monash bioethics review (27)1-2 2008
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This article describes the causes and health consequences of environmental degradation and social injustice. These issues, which impact primarily on the poor and underserved (both in the United States and internationally) are rarely or inadequately covered in the curriculums of traditional health ca...
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PMID: 19205317
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Clinical bioethics was born out of the need to introduce different ethical values involved in the relationships among physician, patient and health institutions which are outside the technical-scientific framework of routine medical practice. Physicians tend to adopt the norms and rules provided for...
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PMID: 18664008
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The Lancet (371)9606 2008
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Academic Psychiatry (32)3 2008
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The percentage of text within psychiatry journals meeting the criteria for medical humanities declined from a peak of 17% in 1970 to a low of 2% in 2000, while the percentage of humanities articles in internal medicine journals roughly doubled from 5% to 11% over the same time period. A linear model...
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PMID: 18467477
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