Medical Humanities

Physicians need to be able to write and interpret case histories. Dealing with texts and narrations is one of the areas in which students of medicine can benefit from exchange with humanists. The Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences have organised three interdisciplinary workshops on the topic «Intimacy and Intrusion», in which the protection of intimacy in the context of disease was discussed. The collaboration of medical scientists and humanists remains a highly complex venture, as is stated in the report on the workshops; it contravenes professional specialisation, puts one's own view into perspective, and thus helps expanding the personal horizon.
 
 
 

«Medical Humanities in Switzerland»

Since the Bologna Accords, the humanities are being integrated into medical education at Swiss universities and colleges. The Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences now published a survey on the implementation of Medical Humanities in Switzerland; the publication also contains a brief overview on the socio-medical research in Switzerland.
Download of the publication (pdf, in German)
 

Medical Humanities. Conference from 16 March 2012.

The conference organised by the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences informed about the Medical Humanities in Switzerland.
Programme




Presentations from the conference (pdf):
Michelle Salathé: Medical Humanities an den Schweizer Hochschulen
Micheline Louis-Courvoisier: Enseignement des sciences humaines en médecine à Genève
Alexander Kiss: Modelle und Erfahrungen Universitätsspital Basel
Guenda Bernegger: Le modèle tessinois
Julie Page & Andreas Bänziger: Sozialwissenschaftliche Gesundheitsforschung in der Schweiz
Anne Hudson Jones: History, Development, and Current Challenges of Medical Humanities
Peter Rüesch: Workshop I, Forschung
Workshop IV: Formation en Medical Humanities dans les hautes écoles

Veranstaltungszyklus zum Themenkreis «Intimität und Intrusion»

 
Report concerning the workshops (in German) (pdf, 689.3 KB)
 

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