This paper discusses various justifications for including medical humanities and art in
healthcare education. It expresses concern about portrayals of the humanities and art as …

Revolutionary new drugs to cure hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection represent one of the most
important breakthroughs in clinical medicine in recent decades. However, high pricing of …

There are two threads from my life that come together in this book. One concerns ethics and
the other is about the arts. Delight in the arts began with my father. After being jailed during …

The process for introducing and developing a program for teaching medical professionalism
at the National University of Singapore, School of Medicine is outlined. Professionalism was …

Bioethics is concerned with ethical issues relating to health and the life-sciences (Potter
1971). It has become an academic discipline over the last fifty years—although the subject …

This paper describes and discusses overlapping interests and concerns of art and bioethics
and suggests that bioethics would benefit from opening to contributions from the arts. There …

A positive and respectful learning environment is fundamental to the development of
professional identities in healthcare. Yet medical students report poor behaviour from …

This chapter explores the nature of any relationship between ethics and the arts. At one time,
the dominant position in the philosophy of art was that there was no relationship. Aesthetics …

Problem: The mistreatment of medical and nursing students and junior health professionals
has been reported internationally in research and the media. Mistreatment can be …

This article is critical of “bioethics” as it is widely understood and taught, noting in particular
an emphasis given to philosophical justification, reason and rationality. It is proposed that …