Poetry in Medicine: oblivious to the obvious
Khyber Medical University JournalMedicine is a science that is deeply intertwined with the emotional, psychological, cultural and social aspects of human life. Poetry has almost a similar domain.
Sheraz Jamal Khan
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The Incorporation of Scientific Discourse in Yamamura Bochō's "Prismist" Poetry (1914-1916) [PDF]
, 2014 Yamamura Bochō (1884-1924) is mainly remembered as the author of "Seisanryōhari" (The Sacred Prism, 1915), a collection of "shi" (modern poetry in non-traditional forms) that represents the culmination of his experiments in diction and imagery.
Bonnie J Holmes +2 more
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Extreme empiricism: John Howard, poetry, and the thermometrics of reform [PDF]
, 2016 This essay examines an outpouring of printed poems and biographical publications in the 1780s and 1790s that sought to shape the public image of the celebrated prison reformer John Howard.
Cervantes, Gabriel, Porter, Dahlia
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\u27Workshops in healing\u27 for senior medical students: 5 year overview and appraisal [PDF]
, 2014 We report upon the design, content and feedback from an interactive, experiential series of Workshops in Healing for senior medical students. Fifty-six final year medical students enrolled in 2×3 h workshops designed around the core themes of ‘physician ...
Kearsley, John, Lobb, Elizabeth
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David Stafford-Clark (1916-1999): seeing through a celebrity psychiatrist [PDF]
, 2017 This article uses the mass-media career of the British psychiatrist David Stafford-Clark (1916-1999) as a case study in the exercise of cultural authority by celebrity medical professionals in post-war Britain.
Miller, Gavin
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The Orality of a Silent Age: The Place of Orality in Medieval Studies [PDF]
, 2008 'The Orality of a Silent Age: The Place of Orality in Medieval Studies' uses a brief survey of current work on Old English poetry as the point of departure for arguing that although useful, the concepts of orality and literacy have, in medieval studies ...
Hall, Alaric
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A reflection on the images of Anvari’s knowledge-based poetry (Case study: A study of three fields of astronomy, music and medicine in 51 odes of Anvari) [PDF]
تاریخ ادبیات, 2018 Poetry is an imaginative speech; i.e., it is the creation of images that are constructed by poetic ideas, and emerges through the artist’s manipulation in speech and expression on the vastness of two synchronic and diachronic axes by means of words.Since
Shahram Ahmadi +1 more
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Experimentalism by contact [PDF]
, 2015 This essay considers literary "experimentalism" as a constructed category animated by epistemic virtues, using the case study of "contact" as both anthropological and literary values in the 1920s.
Cecire, Natalia
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Brain Candy: Wayne State University School of Medicine Journal of Art and Literature, 3rd Edition [PDF]
, 2011 Brain Candy collects poetry, nonfiction essays, short fiction, photographs, and drawings to shed light on the creative process in medicine, the city of Detroit, and the experiences of health care providers.
Wayne State University School of Medicine Gold Humanism Honor Society +1 more
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Witnessing history: a personal view of half a century in public health [PDF]
, 2018 Former Chief Medical Officer Sir Kenneth Calman recently celebrated 50 years in medicine. It was a period which saw the evolution of the public health agenda from communicable diseases to diseases of lifestyle, the change from a hospital-orientated ...
Bergman, B.P. +3 more
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