Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, Physicians, General & Miscellaneous - Medicine, Medical Education & Training, Sexism, Higher Education - General & Miscellaneous, Feminism & Feminist Theory
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Overview
By approaching the training of our physicians from the enlightening perspective of medical humanities, Delese Wear shows us how the Western paradigm of "scientific objectivity" reinforces cultural biases based on gender, race, class, and sexual orientation. But when wise teachers use literature and art to decode the silences and scripts of traditional medical education, our doctors (who record and tell our stories to one another in our medical records) can learn to bring into their practices the healing values of imagination, empathy, and social justice.Book Details
Published
July 31, 1997
Publisher
New York : Teachers College Press, c1997.
Pages
144
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780807762882