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- Claire Hooker.
- Medical Humanities Program, Centre for Values, Ethics and Law in Medicine, University of Sydney, New South Wales. med.usyd.edu.au
- Aust Fam Physician. 2008 May 1; 37 (5): 369-70.
BackgroundThe medical humanities is a broad area of study and practice encompassing all nontechnical or 'human' aspects of medicine.ObjectiveThis article introduces a series in the medical humanities in Australian Family Physician.DiscussionThe medical humanities serve three main goals: the study of the human aspects of medicine from within traditional arts disciplines of history, philosophy, sociology and literature; the intersection of medicine and the creative arts; and the training of more insightful and compassionate doctors. This article briefly explores these three goals and discusses their value for the medical community.
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