Through out one's medical curriculum and career, one is faced with different definitions for the term "Health", which is a compromise between the public and the professional's expectations of what the healthcare should deliver.
The differing aspects of health reflect on the different roles that a doctor has to play in the delivery of healthcare. Publication of Tomorrow's doctors by the GMC and the NHS plan by the department of health set out the shift towards being patient orientated and illustrate the need to change the approach to patient management on the whole.
From considering the patient as biomedical model only, the doctors are now faced with a bio-psychosocial model which is more complex and elusive than the previous model entailed. Psychosocial aspect of a patient is diverse; the factors that contribute to this model are at an infinitum. Diversity contributes to the differences in experience of one's life and illness. Treating the patient in a bio-psychosocial context, the physician needs to understand the uniqueness of his patient's experience. .
Socioeconomic status, immigration, geographical variation and individuality meant that there are occasions when a common ground doesn't exist between the patient and the doctor to build a relationship on.
Arts and humanities is the expression of individuality. The variations that contribute to ones individuality is expressed via these creative routes. .
As Calman's paper (1997) describes "(literature) goes further, using insights of the author to particularise individuals or events in a way that adds colour, depth, and feeling." .
In the quest to gain an understanding of one psychosocial model, a doctor can not, feasibly, enter every patients mentality and still retain objectivity to treat the biomedical model. Arts and Humanities provide an external common ground, on which strangers can come and have their individuality expressed and understood.
The humanities seeks answers to the central questions of the meaning of human life. ... There are numerous ways to approach the humanities; one is the way of arts. ... It is safe to say that the work of art remains the same. ... It also presents a challenge to our responses and perceptions of art. ... By observing our responses, tastes, and our perception to a work of art, we can deepen our understanding of what a work of art is all about. ...
Humanities, art, style, genius, culture, bourgeois what do each of these words mean? ... Webster's Dictionary defines the term "humanities" as "Those branches of knowledge, such as philosophy, literature, and art, that are concerned with human thought and culture; the liberal arts." One might say that the humanities consist of subjects that are outside of the fields of science and mathematics; the fields that cannot be defined by hard numbers. ... One subject tied to humanities is art. ... If you take a brief look into the history of art, you can see some examples of how art has evol...
During the times of the Italian Renaissance, the educational systems were among many issues that were on the minds of many people, despite the most common; Art. ... Superstition took over the teachings and practices of medicine. ... Petrarch's discoveries came to be called the humanistic approach because he occupied himself with the humanities. ... His humanistic views captivated many minds in Europe and later turned it from religion to philosophy and revealed the riches of pagan thought and art. The humanist-inspired revival, known as the Renaissance also led to many improvements i...
He was a physician who founded a clinical approach to medicine. ... He had very strict views on ethics of medicine. ... These three fields of art include many of the ancient Greeks' ideas. ... Aristotle contributed in the fields of logic, physics, biology, and humanities and until the 17th century, science in the Western world was based on his ideas. In the fields of government, science, math, and medicine, Pericles started the type of government we use today known as a democracy. ...
During the high medieval period (1000-1300), architecture and art based on religion was said to have flourished and the art reflected a move toward international Christianity (Renaissance Art, web). ... These three marked advancements affected the evolution of art. ... Scholars began to turn away from the study of religion, medicine and the law, and began to concentrate on science, biology, astronomy and the natural world. ... Art mimicked this humanistic focus. ... Science and art were becoming more important. ...
We use the Arts as a means of touching that part of us that we cannot reach with Physical Science, Social Science, or any of the Humanities. ... The only way to express yourself is through art, and the presence of art in the lives of today's society plays a big role. ... Art is the only way to express one's true feelings. ... Art shows people's individualism. Without art wouldn't we all be the same?...
We use the Arts as a means of touching that part of us that we cannot reach with Physical Science, Social Science, or any of the Humanities. ... The only way to express yourself is through art, and the presence of art in the lives of today's society plays a big role. ... Art is the only way to express one's true feelings. ... Art shows people's individualism. Without art wouldn't we all be the same?...
We use the Arts as a means of touching that part of us that we cannot reach with Physical Science, Social Science, or any of the Humanities. ... The only way to express yourself is through art, and the presence of art in the lives of today's society plays a big role. ... Art is the only way to express one's true feelings. ... Art shows people's individualism. Without art wouldn't we all be the same?...
We use the Arts as a means of touching that part of us that we cannot reach with Physical Science, Social Science, or any of the Humanities. ... The only way to express yourself is through art, and the presence of art in the lives of today's society plays a big role. ... Art is the only way to express one's true feelings. ... Art shows people's individualism. Without art wouldn't we all be the same?...