Affirming the existential within medicine: Medical humanities, governance, and imaginative understanding

Journal of Medical Humanities

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 55-59

  Evans, H M ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Governance; Government; Medical humanities

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EXISTENTIALISM; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; HUMANITIES; MEDICINE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; UNITED KINGDOM;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; EXISTENTIALISM; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANITIES; HUMANS; MEDICINE;

EID: 38849131345     PISSN: 10413545     EISSN: 15733645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10912-007-9051-z     Document Type: Article

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5. This seems true of the four academic conferences to date of the UK Association for Medical Humanities in Durham, 2003; Swansea, 2004; Truro, 2005; and London, 2006 and to some extent, the 2006 meeting of the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine in Helsinki.
6. See H James, The Art of the Novel (New York: Scribner's, 1948) from which Martha Nussbaum takes her title, " 'Finely aware and richly responsible': Literature and the Moral Imagination" in Love's Knowledge (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990), pp. 148-167.