Clinical craft: a lesson from Liverpool

Abstract

Inspiration in medical humanities can be intense and personal, and does not necessarily require the portrayal of health issues.

Looking for emerging themes in medical humanities—some invitations to our readers

“…These include papers on short stories by Kafka 13 and Chekhov, 14 a play by Jules Romain, 15 the Sherlock Holmes tales, 16 Hamlet and depressive illness, 17 medical syndromes in French nineteenth century fiction, 18 and the lessons of television drama for clinical craft. 19 Vying for third place is the category of papers devoted to medical education matters, with four papers, to which should be added the shorter papers on educational matters featuring in our regular "Education and debate" column. The longer papers include a report on the prior development of medical humanities in Argentina, 20 structures and outcomes in medical humanities education, 21 and the propriety or otherwise of the instrumental use of poetry in medical education.…”