Abstract
French and German abstracts see p. 133 The question of whether medicine is essentially a technical science, or rather an existential practice with a centrally ethical task, is one of the mainsprings of the field of enquiry known as «medical humanities», in which ethical and other questions concerning medicine are explored over a broader disciplinary canvas than philosophical medical ethics alone. Here, humanities disciplines (which take human experience as their avowed subject matter, and allow significance to subjectivity as a source of knowledge) focus attention on individual and collective expe- riences of health, illness, disability and healthcare. Medical humanities recognises that art and imagination can «transfig- ure the ordinary» in the ethical arena (as well as in contemplating med- icine's ontology and epistemology), thus reminding us that ethical atten- tion (and analysis) has an imaginative as well as an intellectual dimen- sion. Thus, medical humanities offers a broader interdisciplinary en- gagement that can open and enrich our grasp of the ethical.
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