Literature and Medicine: Newer Perspectives in Interdisciplinary Studies
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This document discusses the importance of interdisciplinary studies between literature and medicine. It provides medical humanities as an example, which combines various creative fields like literature, art, and history with medical education. The founder established medical humanities to train doctors using patients' stories and experiences. Literature can help medical students develop empathy for patients' perspectives and illnesses. Works like poems and novels give insights into living with disease. They also provide methods for students to reflect on their inner thoughts and feelings. Overall, literature aids future doctors by helping them understand patients in a deeper, more humanistic way.
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Literature and Medicine: Newer Perspectives in Interdisciplinary Studies
- 2. Importance of Interdisciplinary Studies Interdisciplinary studies involves the combining of two or more academic disciplines into one activity
- 4. How to pair Literature with Medicine? Two different Spheres Literature Medicine
- 5. Medical Humanities Medical humanities can be defined as an interdisciplinary, and increasingly international endeavor that draws on the creative and intellectual strengths of diverse disciplines, including literature, art, creative writing, drama, film, music, philosophy, ethical decision making, anthropology, and history, in pursuit of medical educational goals.
- 6. Founder of Medical Humanities The Pennsylvania State University Joanne Trautmann Banks First English Professor in 1972
- 7. Medical Humanities is three Fold Reading the stories of Patients Writing about the experiences of the patients to train the doctors in attaining training with their tools Discussing and referring on Literature brings the medical practitioners biases and assumption into focus
- 8. What is the difference between Disease Illness
- 9. What is the difference between Disease Illness Organic Problems Diagnosis based on reports Disorders as per medical records Bodily changes Human Experiences Pain Agony
- 10. The Best Cure for a Disease is Two Shelves Medicine Shelf Pills to get over Physical Pain Book Shelf Books to sleep & for leisure time
- 11. How to different Cultures talk about diseases? Doctors Patients Families
- 12. Physician Writers down the Ages Antiquity St. Luke 1st Century CE Middle Ages Avicenna Islamic Literature
- 13. Physician Writers down the Ages 15th Century Nicolaus Copernicus Mathematician Astronomer Physician
- 14. Physician Writers down the Ages 16th Century Thomas Lodge 1558 1625 English Dramatist One among the University Wits
- 15. Physician Writers down the Ages 17th Century John Locke Father of Liberalism John Arbuthnot- Queen Annes Physician
- 16. Physician Writers down the Ages 18th Century Oliver Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield
- 17. Physician Writers down the Ages 18th Century John Keats English Romantic Movement Tobias Smollett
- 18. Physician Writers down the Ages 19th Century Anton Chekhov Sir Arthur Canon Doyle
- 19. Physician Writers down the Ages 20th Century Sigmund Freud Carl Jung Claud Levis Strauss Robin Cook A.J. Cronin Frantz Fanon Khaled Hosseni Taslima Nasrin
- 20. Physician Writers down the Ages 21st CenturyPaul Kalanithi When breath becomes air Siddartha Mukherjee
- 21. What do the doctors do? They translate our bodily symptoms into diseases. They decode our body language Our Body speaks: Blushing, Belching, etc Reconceptualise normality and disability. The Body expresses its own pleasure and displeasure. The Relationship between the doctors and Patients is a symbiotic relationship Aesthetic and interpretive understanding of Literature and Medicine
- 22. The Benefits Literature to a Medical Student Patients Perspectives and Empathy Aesthetics and Narratives Reflecting and Connecting
- 23. Patients Perspectives and Empathy T.S. Eliot We read many books, Because we cannot know enough People Philip Larkin Heads in the Womens Ward, Building
- 24. Patients Perspectives and Empathy Philip Larkin Heads in the Womens Ward All these Poems express how hospitals and illness are terrifying and alienating the patients On pillow after pillow lies The wild white hair and staring eyes; Jaws stand open; necks are stretched With every tendon sharply sketched; A bearded mouth talks silently To someone no one else can see. Sixty years ago they smiled At lover, husband, first born child. Smiles are for youth. For old age come Deaths terror and delirium.
- 25. Philip Larkins The Building Hospitals are significant places for people, places of birth and death. A lot of interactions between the patients and the health care professionals take place inside the hospitals This place accepts. All know they are going to die. Not yet, perhaps not here, but in the end, And somewhere like this. That is what it means, This clean sliced cliff; a struggle to transcend The thought of dying, for unless its powers Out build cathedrals nothing contravenes The coming dark, though crowds each evening try With wasteful, weak, propitiatory flowers.
- 26. Aesthetics and Narratives Allen Benetts A life like other peoples Its the story of his mother suffering from Alzheimer's Disease. Its provides the sons perspective on his mothers illness and how it affects the family. He beautifully describes how the uniqueness of self within his mother is gradually lost as her disease progresses
- 27. Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper The narrator is suffering from an unspecified nervous aberration. Autobiographical element she also has suffered from nervous disorder. The Protagonist becomes obsessed with the yellow wallpaper in the room in which she is imprisoned by her husband.
- 28. Frantz Kafkas A Country Doctor A Short Story Autobiographical element his uncle who was a Doctor Bizarre atmosphere How he is treated by the patients Family
- 29. Keats to Benjamin Bailey (As a Medical Student) I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the hearts affections and the truth of imagination- What imagination sees as beauty must be truth. The role of art in search of truth. The persuit of truth about the human condition through acts of imagination.
- 30. Reflecting and Connecting Literature can give us a greater appreciation of the patients perspective, their stories, and their illnesses. However, to become good doctors, students also need methods of connecting with their own inner thoughts and feelings.
- 31. Mahesh Dattanis Brief Candle Mahesh Dattanis Brief Candle deals with the life of cancer patients and is set in a hospital where cancer patients are about to stage a comic play to raise fund for their hospice.
- 32. Reflecting and Connecting Susan Sontag American Writer, Filmmaker, Philosopher and social activist Notes on Camp Illness as Metaphor Critical Theory Victim Blaming Teases public perspective on Cancer She associates diseases with psychological traits.
- 33. The Psychological Traits It creates a big question In every patient WHY ME?????
- 34. To Conclude Literature can aid the medical students by connecting them to the deeper elements in a patients psyche, enabling doctors to view things more effectively from the patients perspective. The Aesthetic approach using literature in medicine is stated to create interpersonal skills of narratives when interacting with the patients.
- 35. To Conclude It suggests that the skills developed when thinking about characters in a novel can be applied to understand patient narratives in the real world. For students who are inclined to read literature, it can be a great comfort, an insightful teacher, and an invaluable tool.
- 36. The American Web Series Protagonist, Shaun Murphy Autistic A successful surgeon
- 37. For further prospects Biopolitics Cinemeducation Disability Studies Transplant Fiction Health Communication
- 38. Hence Ethics and Moral values have become the need of the hour for medical students Science cannot teach values and ethics but the Literature teaching Community Can