Pandemic fiction is more popular than ever – but what these books and movies offer us isn’t as straightforward as you might think.
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Can empathy be taught to students in the healthcare professions? A groundbreaking project is using visual art to ensure they pay attention to the whole person, not just the disease.
Many medical disciplines have started encouraging their students to embrace lessons from the arts and humanities. Physiotherapy is lagging behind.
Sacks was able to communicate the fascinating workings of the brain in ways that evoked understanding and compassion.
From serving newborns to treating hospice patients, music can be used in medical and psychological treatment with surprising – and real – results.
Whatever your opinion of book prizes, they remain a useful tool for understanding what is popular in the literary world. The Costa Book of the Year, awarded this year to Helen Macdonald for her book H…
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Senior Academic Programs Curator, Museums and Collections Department, University of Melbourne, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Communications, Dublin City University
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Lecturer In Linguistics, Bournemouth University
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Professor of Music Therapy, Berklee College of Music
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Associate Professor in Physiotherapy, University of the Western Cape
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