medicine Archives

3 06, 2019

Van Gogh and health (Paola Chesi, MedicinaNarrativa.eu)

By Humanities Watch|2019-06-03T08:07:09-04:00June 3rd, 2019|Arts, Europe, Everything Else, health, History, Italy, Language, Literature, Medicine, Nature, News, painting, psychology, Writing|0 Comments

Allowing art to elicit reflections on our own state of mind.

30 03, 2019

System failure: the doctor is remote (BBC News)

By Humanities Watch|2019-03-29T21:16:46-04:00March 30th, 2019|Everything Else, health, Language, Medicine, News, Philosophy, STEM, Technology, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

Robot as a doctor provides cold comfort to the dying.

23 03, 2019

Doctors need to listen up (Philippa Göranson, Patientmakt)

By Humanities Watch|2019-03-23T09:11:48-04:00March 23rd, 2019|Academia, Everything Else, health, History, Language, Medicine, News, Philosophy, science, STEM, Technology, Writing|0 Comments

The art of listening, shown by Plato, is a matter of life and death in healthcare.

12 02, 2019

The struggle over medical humanities (M.E. Kollmer Horton, Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine)

By Humanities Watch|2019-02-11T20:58:24-05:00February 12th, 2019|Articles, Debate / dialogue, Everything Else, health, History, Literature, Medicine, News, Philosophy, science, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

Can the humanities find a home in medical training?

3 02, 2019

Unhealthy AI (Dhruv Khullar, NY Times)

By Humanities Watch|2019-02-08T15:23:29-05:00February 3rd, 2019|Economics, education, Everything Else, health, Medicine, News, Philosophy, STEM, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

AI may worsen health care based upon programmed inequities.

30 01, 2019

Life’s narrative and the humanities (Jon Parrish Peede, NEH)

By Humanities Watch|2019-01-30T08:20:41-05:00January 30th, 2019|Academia, education, Everything Else, Language, Medicine, Philosophy, poetry, Quotes, science, U.S. / Canada|1 Comment

How medicine and literature combine to lend care a richer meaning.

28 12, 2018

Humanities and wholeness

By Humanities Watch|2018-12-30T13:00:16-05:00December 28th, 2018|Arts, Everything Else, health, History, Medicine, Observations, Philosophy, poetry, science, STEM, Technology, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

Reflections on Humanities Watch’s third anniversary

22 12, 2018

The artful hospital (Maria Giulia Marini, medicinanarrativa.eu)

By Humanities Watch|2019-01-03T07:02:03-05:00December 22nd, 2018|Arts, Everything Else, health, Language, Literature, Medicine, Museums, painting, Quotes, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

Overcoming clinical resistance to the ways that art engages the entire person and the family in the healing process.

14 11, 2018

Healthy doubts about AI (E. Vayena, A. Blasimme, I.G. Cohen, PLoS Med)

By Humanities Watch|2018-11-14T15:42:55-05:00November 14th, 2018|Debate / dialogue, education, Everything Else, health, Medicine, News, Philosophy, science, STEM, Technology|0 Comments

AI in medicine raises questions about its fairness and accuracy.

12 10, 2018

The meaning of medical humanities (Brandy Shillace, The Polyphony)

By Humanities Watch|2018-10-13T03:50:21-04:00October 12th, 2018|Academia, Arts, Debate / dialogue, Europe, Everything Else, health, Language, Literature, Medicine, News, psychology, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

Thinking not only about the way medicine views the humanities, but vice-versa.