Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: alan bleakley

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  • METACOGNITION, METAHUMANITIES, AND MEDICAL EDUCATION
    ALAN BLEAKLEY / QUENTIN EICHBAUM / RACHEL ELLAWAY
    This persuasive volume develops a novel approach to medical education and the medical humanities, making a case for the integration of the two to explore the ways in which ‘warm’ humanism and ‘cold’ technologies can come together to design humane posthumanist futures in medicine. There are many problems with conventional medical education. It can be overly technocratic, dehuman...

    $1,240.00

  • ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF MEDICINE AND POETRY
    ALAN BLEAKLEY
    The Routledge Handbook of Medicine and Poetry draws on an international selection of authors to ask what the cultures of poetry and medicine may gain from reciprocal critical engagement. The volume celebrates interdisciplinary inquiry, critique, and creative expansion with an emphasis upon amplifying provocative and marginalized voices. This carefully curated collection offers ...

    $1,360.00

  • MEDICAL HUMANITIES
    ALAN BLEAKLEY
    This ground-breaking book sets out a fresh vision for a future medical education by providing a radical reconceptualisation of the purposes of medical humanities through a lens of critical health psychology and liberatory pedagogy. The medical humanities are conceived as translational media through which reductive, instrumental biomedicine can be raised in quality, intensity, a...

    $1,100.00

  • POETRY IN THE CLINIC
    ALAN BLEAKLEY / SHANE NEILSON
    This book explores previously unexamined overlaps between the poetic imagination and the medical mind. It shows how appreciation of poetry can help us to engage with medicine in more intense ways based on ‘de-familiarising’ old habits and bringing poetic forms of ‘close reading’ to the clinic. Bleakley and Neilson carry out an extensive critical examination of the well-establis...

    $1,160.00

  • MEDICAL EDUCATION, POLITICS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
    ALAN BLEAKLEY
    This book critically analyses how politics and power affect the ways that medicine is taught and learned. Challenging society’s historic reluctance to connect the realm of politics to the realm of medicine, Medical Education, Politics and Social Justice: The Contradiction Cure emphasizes the need for medical students to engage with social justice issues, including global health...

    $1,160.00

  • EDUCATING DOCTORS' SENSES THROUGH THE MEDICAL HUMANITIES
    ALAN BLEAKLEY
    How Do I Look? Educating Doctors’ Senses Through the Medical Humanities uses the medical diagnostic method to identify a chronic symptom in medical culture: the unintentional production of insensibility through compulsory mis-education. This book identifies the symptom and its origins and offers an intervention: deliberate and planned education of sensibility through the introd...

    $1,160.00

  • THINKING WITH METAPHORS IN MEDICINE
    ALAN BLEAKLEY
    While medical language is soaked in metaphor, and thinking with metaphor is central to diagnostic work, medicine – that is, medical culture, clinical practice and medical education – outwardly rejects metaphor for objective, literal scientific language. This thought-provoking book argues that this is a misstep, and critically considers what embracing the use of metaphors and si...

    $1,280.00

  • MEDICAL HUMANITIES AND MEDICAL EDUCATION
    ALAN BLEAKLEY
    The field of the medical humanities is developing rapidly, however, there has also been parallel concern from sceptics that the value of medical humanities educational interventions should be open to scrutiny and evidence. Just what is the impact of medical humanities provision upon the education of medical students? In an era of limited resources, is such provision worth the i...

    $1,540.00

  • SELF-LITERACY
    ALAN BLEAKLEY
    Self-Literacy: Writing Out Personhood offers fifty perspectives on gaining an understanding of what ‘personhood’ may mean through various disciplines. Literature is a key medium through which selves are mapped as humans are written into being. Such literature is intimately tied to health such as within self-help literature, written accounts of illness, or of characters who are ...

    $1,240.00