Lecture 1 Intro

Question 1

Humanities

Answer 1

humane feeling

Question 2

Humanities

Cole, Carlin & Carson, 2015:2

Answer 2

Educate ‘emotions and intellect,
Enhance compassion and critical thinking,
Encourage active engagement in public and/or professional life

Question 3

Multidisciplinary -

Answer 3

medical anthropology, indigenous studies

Question 4

Humanities toolkit

Answer 4

understand human experience through development of insight, perspective, critical understanding, discernment, and creativity

Question 5

Humanities value

Answer 5

understand how to be human and humane

Question 6

Medical Humanities

Whitehead & Woods, 2016:1

Answer 6

series of intersections, exchanges, entanglements
between biomedical sciences, arts, humanities
and social sciences

Question 7

Medical Humanities
(Cole, Carlin & Carson,
2015:9-11)

Answer 7

Bridge between science and experience,

cultivates key virtues in health professionals via reflective, interpretive, reflexive practices, promotes health care

Question 8

‘Entangled’ Definitions of Health

WHO

Answer 8

State of complete physical mental and social well being Not merely absence of disease or infirmity

Question 9

‘Entangled’ Definitions of Health
Baer, Singer and Susser (1997)
(political economy approach)

Answer 9

Access to and control over basic resources that

sustain and promote life.

Question 10

‘Entangled’ Definitions of Health
Kleinman (1988)
(interpretive aspect – medical anthropology)

Answer 10

Set of common sense ideas which all have since childhood about bodily processes,
Way in which we monitor them, and the devices used to describe them.