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| Title |
Medical Humanities – the Historical Significance and Mission in Medical Education
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Journal of UOEH, January 2015
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| DOI | 10.7888/juoeh.37.273 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Akihiro Fujino |
| Abstract |
In this paper we consider the significance and mission of medical humanities in medical education from the following six viewpoints: (1) misunderstanding of the medical humanities; (2) its historical development; (3) the criteria for the ideal physician; (4) the contents of current Medical Humanities education; (5) the basic philosophy; and (6) its relation to medical professionalism. Medical humanities consists of the three academic components of bioethics, clinical ethics and medical anthropology, and it is a philosophy and an art which penetrate to the fundamental essence of medicine. The purpose of medical humanities is to develop one's own humanity and spirituality through medical practice and contemplation by empathizing with patients' illness narratives through spiritual self-awakening and by understanding the mutual healing powers of human relations by way of the realization of primordial life. The basic philosophy is "the coincidence of contraries". The ultimate mission of medical humanities is to cultivate physicians to educate themselves and have a life-long philosophy of devotion to understanding, through experience, the coincidence of contraries. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | 3 | 38% |
| Unknown | 5 | 63% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 8 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 20 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 2 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 2 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 2 | 10% |
| Lecturer > Senior Lecturer | 1 | 5% |
| Librarian | 1 | 5% |
| Other | 6 | 30% |
| Unknown | 6 | 30% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 5 | 25% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 2 | 10% |
| Philosophy | 1 | 5% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 1 | 5% |
| Arts and Humanities | 1 | 5% |
| Other | 2 | 10% |
| Unknown | 8 | 40% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 May 2023.
All research outputs
#7,148,499
of 25,374,647 outputs
Outputs from Journal of UOEH
#29
of 200 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#89,013
of 359,528 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of UOEH
#2
of 8 outputs
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