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A culturally competent approach to teaching humanities in an international medical school: potential frameworks and lessons learned [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]

open access: yesMedEdPublish, 2022
Background: This paper describes the development of a culturally competent medical humanities course for second and third-year medical students at the ethnically diverse College of Medicine at Qatar University. First taught in 2016, the elective seminar “
Suhad Daher-Nashif, Tanya Kane
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Tropical Gothic: arts, humanities and social sciences

open access: yeseTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2019
The Gothic is undergoing a pronounced resurgence in academic and popular cultures. Propelled by fears associated with massive social transformations produced by globalisation, the neoliberal order and environmental uncertainty – tropes of the Gothic ...
Anita Lundberg   +2 more
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A culturally competent approach to teach humanities in international medical school: potential frameworks and lessons learned [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]

open access: yesMedEdPublish, 2022
Background: This paper describes the development of a culturally competent medical humanities course for second and third-year medical students at the ethnically diverse College of Medicine at Qatar University. First taught in 2016, the elective seminar “
Suhad Daher-Nashif, Tanya Kane
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Fighting Food Poverty through Film: Or Why Global Challenge Research Needs the Arts and Humanities

open access: yesHumanities, 2020
Food poverty is just one example of a global challenge where the Arts and Humanities perspective risks being judged at worst to have no relevance at all, and at best to be included as no more than an accessible tool to facilitate public engagement and ...
Margaret Topping
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Quiet Contributors: The Role of the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences in Innovation

open access: yesForesight and STI Governance, 2018
Many countries are directing their attention to the support of technological innovation with the intent to obtain economic and social benefits at home while positioning themselves for high margin, high technology export markets. The under-considered and
Jonathan Linton
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Compassion, Necessity, and the Pharmakon of the Health Humanities

open access: yesJournal of Applied Hermeneutics, 2016
Health humanities is an emergent interdisciplinary field drawing on existing traditions of using resources from the arts and humanities in the education of health professionals. Cultivation of compassion is often cited, though not without some debate, as
Graham McCaffrey
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From Inter-Disciplinarity Towards Trans-Disciplinarity in Arts and Sciences: Presumptions for the Artistic Research and Doctoral Studies in Arts

open access: yesActa Academiae Artium Vilnensis, 2023
This paper overviews the development of the notion of trans-disciplinarity in Lithuania and its neighbouring contexts, and makes an attempt to identify its current relation to science and art. The paper analyses the ways in which artistic research,
Vytautas Michelkevičius, Aldis Gedutis
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Medical Humanities in the Nepalese context

open access: yesJournal of Nepal Health Research Council, 2021
Medical humanities use the creative and intellectual strengths of the arts for specific purposes in medical education. The author read with great interest the Medical humanities program at the Patan Academy of Health Sciences and has been associated ...
Pathiyil Ravi Shankar
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The ‘Other’ in Ourselves: Exploring the Educational Power of the Humanities and Arts

open access: yesResearch on Ageing and Social Policy, 2018
Humanities and arts have been considered some of the central legacies of the former classical civilizations and ancient civilizations. Taking this knowledge as a base, the cultural-related disciplines or fields of study that humanities and arts cover ...
Maite Santiago Garabieta
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Strategies and Recommendations for the Management of Uncertainty in Research Tools and Environments for Digital History

open access: yesInformatics, 2019
This paper takes a high-level view of both the sources and status of uncertainty in historical research and the manners in which possible negative effects of this omnipresent characteristic might be managed and mitigated.
Jennifer Edmond
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