Published 30 October 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b4494
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;339:b4494

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Explore the humanities in illness and medicine

Geoff Watts

1 London

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With a nascent research programme ranging from an analysis of 15 000 sets of psychiatric case notes to a philosophical enquiry into the very concept of health, the newly inaugurated Centre for the Humanities and Health is aiming to tackle its subject material on a broad front. A virtual organisation based at King’s College London and established with a grant of £2m ({euro}2.2m; $3.3m) from the Wellcome Trust, it will study illness not as biomedical phenomenon but as a subjective experience to be scrutinised by scholars from King’s and elsewhere, with backgrounds in history, literature, psychology, philosophy, and the visual and other arts as well as nursing and medicine.

The director of the centre is Brian Hurwitz, D’Oyly Carte professor of medicine and the arts at King’s, and an inner London GP. His own interest in the topic goes back to the time when he was still in training. . . . [Full text of this article]


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