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‘Life, it's like a tooth’ Teaching medical humanities
Author(s) -
Sokol Daniel K.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
the clinical teacher
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.354
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1743-498X
pISSN - 1743-4971
DOI - 10.1111/j.1743-498x.2005.00031.x
Subject(s) - citation , meaning (existential) , humanities , digital humanities , medical humanities , psychology , medicine , library science , art , medical education , computer science , psychotherapist
So, how is life like a tooth? Let’s pursue this ludicrous analogy for a moment. Perhaps Vian is poking fun at the crowds of poets, philosophers and novelists who, in centuries past, tried so hard to explain what ‘life’ is. In eight short lines, and using the analogy of a simple tooth, Vian can apparently answer the question just as well as any philospher. The comma after the word ‘life’ creates New Developments in Teaching