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PubMed1980

Relating literature to medicine: blending humanism and science in medical education.

There is a need to add a humanistic component to scientific aspects of medical education. It must be adequately organized and evaluated to compete successfully in an already overcrowded curriculum. This study reports an educational experiment involving three consecutive freshmen classes in a new community-based medical school. A specialist in literature and a psychiatrist teach a two-week course to first-year students in which themes and topics relevant to medical practice are explored through selected readings and patient interviews that are integrated into daily experiential groups. The outcome of the course and similarities and differences between years are explored in relation to group sessions, class composition, reading assignments, and patient interviews.

Age Factors↗
PubMed2006

Perceptions of student nurses regarding the use of a popular autobiography as a teaching tool.

Recent studies encourage educators in nursing to use innovative and non-traditional teaching methods, such as using popular movies, posters, portfolios and surfing the internet, to stimulate students' interest, participation and interaction to enhance academic performance as well as knowledge retention. In this, descriptive cross-sectional study, we used self-administered questionnaires with statements graded on 5-points Likert scale (quantitative measures) and open-ended questions (qualitative measures), to assess the feasibility and students' perceptions regarding the use of Lance Armstrong's autobiography of surviving against cancer as a teaching tool. At the beginning of the lecture copies of selected chapters from: "It's Not About the Bike; My Journey Back to Life" [Armstrong, L., Jenkins, S. 2001. It's Not About The Bike: My Journey Back To Life. Yellow Jersey Press, Random House (Pty) Limited, Great Britain], were given to students. Willing students were requested to read for the whole class while the lecturer interjected periodically to explain and expound on certain pharmacological concepts. Eighty percent (80%) of participants felt that the use of an autobiography stimulated their interesting in cancer drugs and 84% agreed/strongly agreed that it contributed to their knowledge of pharmacology. Using Lance Armstrong's autobiography of survival to teach cytotoxic drugs is a worthwhile and rewarding exercise from the student nurses' perspective.

Adult↗
PubMed2006

The Finch factor.

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Angina, Unstable↗
PubMed1998

William E. Adams: Thomas Mann and The Magic Mountain.

The lobectomy for carcinoma of the lung performed by William E. Adams in 1946 on Thomas Mann, author of the tuberculosis saga The Magic Mountain, deserves to be added to Harold Ellis's series of "historically famous operations." This lobectomy, by which the surgeon cured his far more famous patient, was only one episode in his 40 eventful years as Chicago's leading pioneer in early thoracic surgery. The historic case is well documented by preoperative, operative, and pathology reports obtained through the courtesy of still-living witnesses and associates, friends of the author. Thomas Mann died 9 years later of an aortoiliac rupture at the University Hospital in Zurich. At autopsy no local recurrence or distal metastasis was found.

Famous Persons↗
PubMed2000

Hans Castorp's journey-to-knowledge of disease and health in Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain.

The paper examines Thomas Mann's novel, The Magic Mountain, to show how imaginative literature can enhance our understanding of health in place. The story centers on the experiences of Hans Castorp, a young bourgeois German, at a tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps. Three themes are examined: (1) how knowledge about illness and health, death and life, is gained; (2) how knowledge is arrived at through a dialectical process which reconciles seeming opposites; and(3) how new knowledge is gained through making transitions. Lessons for health geography are drawn from analysis of the three themes.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1997

Toothache--the 'hell of all diseases'.

Last year was the bicentenary of the death of Robert Burns, who is Scotland's best known poet. January 25, Burns' birth date, is also a well-known celebration to the Scottish-the famous 'Burns Night'. Burns wrote many songs and poems, but his 'Address to the Toothache' is of particular interest to dentists. The poem provides a vivid account of one man's experience of toothache and gives an insight into how people regarded pain two hundred years ago.

England↗
PubMed1997

[Adolescence and chronic suicidal tendencies--the biography of the Italian poet Cesare Pavese (1908-1950)].

Suicide is widely understood as a failed solution of a crisis triggered by actual stress in a psychologically predisposed person. This description of the biography of the Italian author Cesare Pavese (1908-1950), who committed suicide at the peak of his career, emphasizes that chronic suicidal tendencies may be a feature of certain life-styles. A diary published posthumously shows that he had been reflecting on suicide for many years. A psychodynamic interpretation of his chronic suicidal tendencies stresses the importance of developmental goals in adolescence and early adulthood. Pavese did not establish a firm ego-identity. He remained through-out his life in a state of ambivalence between intimacy and autonomy, typical of adolescence. He increasingly experienced his writing as a surrogate for real life. His suicide was the paradoxical attempt to experience himself as a person acting in reality.

Adolescent↗