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The humanities and nursing: using popular literature as a means of understanding human experience
Author(s) -
Moyle Wendy,
Barnard Alan,
Turner Charne
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2648.1995.21050960.x
Subject(s) - curriculum , inclusion (mineral) , nursing , psychology , power (physics) , medical humanities , medical education , medicine , pedagogy , social psychology , physics , quantum mechanics
The rapid advances in technology during the twentieth century have encouraged science and technology to be the main focus of the nursing curricula The effect of this focus tends to hinder the importance of the human condition This paper discusses the benefits of including the humanities, particularly but not exclusively the inclusion of literary study in nursing curricula It is argued that the study of popular literature by students of nursing provides them with the opportunity to understand and to appreciate life expenences This assists them in gaming awareness and sensitivity to the many physical and psychological components of people's reactions to health, illness and hospitalization The power of literary study to promote an appreciation of the hurt and pain of disease is considered by the authors to be an effective teaching tool within a comprehensive programme for students of nursing