Medical Humanities

  1. Rita Charon, MD, PhD
  1. College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, New York.

    Evans M, Finlay IG, eds. 292 pages. London: BMJ; 2001. $39.95. ISBN 0727916106. Order at http://www.bmjbooks.com.

    Field of medicine: Humanities and medicine, medical ethics, and narrative medicine.

    Format: Softcover book.

    Audience: Physicians, bioethicists, humanities scholars who work in medical settings, specialists in patients' experiences of illness and the doctor–patient relationship, and students in health professions.

    Purpose: To articulate the goals, justification, conceptual frameworks, and practice of medical humanities as it has developed in the United …

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