Literature and medicine.
Open Access
- 1 June 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Journal of Medical Ethics
- Vol. 17 (2), 93-98
- https://doi.org/10.1136/jme.17.2.93
Abstract
There are various ways in which medicine and literature interact, but this paper concentrates on the contribution which literature can make to 'whole person understanding'. Scientific understanding is concerned with seeing events and actions in terms of patterns or similarities. But 'whole person understanding' is concerned with uniqueness or with what it is for a given person to have an illness. Literature can in various ways develop this kind of understanding.Keywords
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