
Medicine and other sciences: medical humanities
Author(s) -
Antonio Maconi,
Roberta Lombardi,
Mariateresa Dacquino
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
working paper of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2279-9761
DOI - 10.4081/wpph.2019.9216
Subject(s) - intellect , medical humanities , intuition , humanities , dimension (graph theory) , subject (documents) , psychology , digital humanities , sociology , epistemology , medicine , medical education , philosophy , computer science , cognitive science , library science , mathematics , pure mathematics
Objectives: Medical Humanities aims to integrate the technical dimension of the approach to the patient, with the relational dimension provided by the humanities. Methodology: selection, examination and analysis of some essays on the subject for an examination of Medical Humanities. Results: some experiences of MH are highlighted, so that they can be perceived as elements of change. Conclusions: MH allow to identify the points of contact so that intellect and intuition can be put together, knowing the differences and the complementarities that they contain and that bind them.