THE ART OF MEDICINE: A NEW MEDICAL HUMANITIES GATEWAY COURSE
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Patricia Olynyk
Abstract
In recent years, a growing number of research universities have developed medical humanities programs that coalesce the arts, humanities, and medicine. All three have made a perceptible move toward deemphasizing the boundary conditions that define each field, and this has opened up new research pathways, forms of knowledge production and collaborative outcomes. Though ongoing debates over medicine’s status as a science or an art remain, the claim that art plays a vital role in medical education through the medical humanities is credible. This essay presents an overview of medical humanities programs in the United States, and a new Medical Humanities Minor at Washington University. It also explores the “connective tissue” between the medical humanities and critical art practices in a new cross-disciplinary course housed in the minor, called “The Art of Medicine.” This team-taught course enrolls artists, humanists and pre-med students alike, offering a singular encounter with the changing landscape of contemporary art and western medicine from ancient times to the present day. As a gateway course to the Medical Humanities Minor and one of five courses sponsored by the Provost’s Interdisciplinary Teaching Grant Program at Washington University, The Art of Medicine features not only ways in which art serves medical education, but also how art practice as a unique form of critical inquiry advances the social, ethical, and humanistic investigation of medicine.
Abstract
In recent years, a growing number of research universities have developed medical humanities programs that coalesce the arts, humanities, and medicine. All three have made a perceptible move toward deemphasizing the boundary conditions that define each field, and this has opened up new research pathways, forms of knowledge production and collaborative outcomes. Though ongoing debates over medicine’s status as a science or an art remain, the claim that art plays a vital role in medical education through the medical humanities is credible. This essay presents an overview of medical humanities programs in the United States, and a new Medical Humanities Minor at Washington University. It also explores the “connective tissue” between the medical humanities and critical art practices in a new cross-disciplinary course housed in the minor, called “The Art of Medicine.” This team-taught course enrolls artists, humanists and pre-med students alike, offering a singular encounter with the changing landscape of contemporary art and western medicine from ancient times to the present day. As a gateway course to the Medical Humanities Minor and one of five courses sponsored by the Provost’s Interdisciplinary Teaching Grant Program at Washington University, The Art of Medicine features not only ways in which art serves medical education, but also how art practice as a unique form of critical inquiry advances the social, ethical, and humanistic investigation of medicine.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter 1
- Table of Contents 5
- PREFACE 9
- FOREWORD 11
- INTRODUCTION 17
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#1 ROLE MODELS
- ARTISTIC RESEARCH AS PRAXIS AND PEDAGOGY 29
- LIKE DRIVING AT NIGHT: A PROCESS-BASED, LEARNER-CENTERED APPROACH TO TEACHING ARTISTIC RESEARCH ACROSS DISCIPLINES 43
- LUDIC GAMES: PLAYFUL FORMS OF INSIGHT 55
- NONVERBAL WORDS: INVESTIGATING ARTISTIC METHODS AND CODES 67
- WORKING IN_BETWEEN. APPROACHING THE UNKNOWN 73
- WRITING AS ARTISTIC RESEARCH 85
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#2 HYBRIDITY IN MAKING: RETHINKING THE CURRICULUM
- AFTER ARTISTIC RESEARCH 99
- LEARNING FROM SOCIALLY-ENGAGED ARTISTIC RESEARCH PRACTICE 117
- IDENTIFYING AS ARTISTS, RESEARCHERS AND TEACHERS: AN ARTISTIC RESEARCH PROJECT FOCUSING ON ART EDUCATIONAL IDENTITIES 127
- ON THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN ARTISTIC RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN THE ARTS: AN EXPERIMENT IN REFLEXIVE SENSITIZATION 135
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#3 HYBRID PEDAGOGIES: TEACHING FOR INTERDISCIPLINARITY
- COMMUNICATION, INTUITION AND TACIT KNOWLEDGE: CONSIDERATIONS ON EXPERIENCES IN AND WITH TEACHING 145
- EXPLORING INTERSECTIONS IN ART EDUCATION: A COUNTER ASSESSMENT OF SOCIALLY ENGAGED ARTS- AND COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCH 157
- THREE APPROACHES TO TEACHING COLLABORATIVE ARTISTIC RESEARCH 167
- DIGITAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, MAKING AND LEARNING 179
- THE ART OF MEDICINE: A NEW MEDICAL HUMANITIES GATEWAY COURSE 187
- WHITE MYTHOLOGIES AND EPISTEMIC REFUSALS: TEACHING ARTISTIC RESEARCH THROUGH INSTITUTIONAL CONFLICT 195
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AFTERWORD
- TOWARDS A FUTURE PARADIGM 211
- CURRICULUM VITAE 220
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter 1
- Table of Contents 5
- PREFACE 9
- FOREWORD 11
- INTRODUCTION 17
-
#1 ROLE MODELS
- ARTISTIC RESEARCH AS PRAXIS AND PEDAGOGY 29
- LIKE DRIVING AT NIGHT: A PROCESS-BASED, LEARNER-CENTERED APPROACH TO TEACHING ARTISTIC RESEARCH ACROSS DISCIPLINES 43
- LUDIC GAMES: PLAYFUL FORMS OF INSIGHT 55
- NONVERBAL WORDS: INVESTIGATING ARTISTIC METHODS AND CODES 67
- WORKING IN_BETWEEN. APPROACHING THE UNKNOWN 73
- WRITING AS ARTISTIC RESEARCH 85
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#2 HYBRIDITY IN MAKING: RETHINKING THE CURRICULUM
- AFTER ARTISTIC RESEARCH 99
- LEARNING FROM SOCIALLY-ENGAGED ARTISTIC RESEARCH PRACTICE 117
- IDENTIFYING AS ARTISTS, RESEARCHERS AND TEACHERS: AN ARTISTIC RESEARCH PROJECT FOCUSING ON ART EDUCATIONAL IDENTITIES 127
- ON THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN ARTISTIC RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN THE ARTS: AN EXPERIMENT IN REFLEXIVE SENSITIZATION 135
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#3 HYBRID PEDAGOGIES: TEACHING FOR INTERDISCIPLINARITY
- COMMUNICATION, INTUITION AND TACIT KNOWLEDGE: CONSIDERATIONS ON EXPERIENCES IN AND WITH TEACHING 145
- EXPLORING INTERSECTIONS IN ART EDUCATION: A COUNTER ASSESSMENT OF SOCIALLY ENGAGED ARTS- AND COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCH 157
- THREE APPROACHES TO TEACHING COLLABORATIVE ARTISTIC RESEARCH 167
- DIGITAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, MAKING AND LEARNING 179
- THE ART OF MEDICINE: A NEW MEDICAL HUMANITIES GATEWAY COURSE 187
- WHITE MYTHOLOGIES AND EPISTEMIC REFUSALS: TEACHING ARTISTIC RESEARCH THROUGH INSTITUTIONAL CONFLICT 195
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AFTERWORD
- TOWARDS A FUTURE PARADIGM 211
- CURRICULUM VITAE 220
