PRESENTATION TITLE

The Medical Humanities: A Historical Overview

PRESENTER
Neil Vickers, D.Phil

PRESENTER BIO

Neil Vickers is Professor of English Literature and the Health Humanities at King's college London where he codirects the centre for the Humanities and Health. His most recent book is "Being Ill: on sickness, care and Abandonment" (London, 2024). He has had two careers, one in epidemiology and one in literature and the health humanities. He is currently writing what he hopes will be the first book-length history of the field.

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of this activity participants should be able to:  

• Trace the three developmental phases of the us medical humanities - from the values-and-bioethics orientation of the 1960s SHHV chaplaincy network, through the culture-and-narrative turn driven by medical anthropology and the biopsychosocial model in the 1980s, to the structural violence framework inaugurated by Paul Farmer in the 1990s.
• Reflect on how each phase continues to shape current practice.

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