Why Teach Literature and Medicine? Answers from Three Decades

Journal of Medical Humanities

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 415-428

  Jones, Anne Hudson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Literature and medicine; Medical education; Medical ethics; Medical humanities; Moral inquiry; Narrative ethics; Narrative medicine

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HISTORY; LITERATURE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

EDUCATION, MEDICAL; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; MEDICINE IN LITERATURE; NARRATION;

EID: 84887317264     PISSN: 10413545     EISSN: 15733645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10912-013-9241-9     Document Type: Article

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