PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Emily Mayhew TI - ‘A higher form of listening’: a commentary on ‘the human bodies of World War II: beyond the battlefield’ AID - 10.1136/medhum-2019-011676 DP - 2020 Jun 24 TA - Medical Humanities PG - medhum-2019-011676 4099 - http://mh.bmj.com/content/early/2020/06/24/medhum-2019-011676.short 4100 - http://mh.bmj.com/content/early/2020/06/24/medhum-2019-011676.full AB - This issue’s interdisciplinary range parallels the generative multidisciplinary scope in the developing field of medical humanities. A closely detailed and empathic interdisciplinary analysis of physical and mental injury can offer additional historical and cultural resources to medical practitioners, thus broadening potential patient treatment options beyond institutional and disciplinary boundaries.