The field of medical humanities is growing rapidly and offers many valuable insights for medical education generally and for enhancing and improving communication specifically. Through practical and thought-provoking examples, this innovative new text demonstrates how engaging with the arts and humanities can benefit the work of doctors and make them better, more effective practitioners with a focus on achieving this through better communication and by stimulating self-reflection.

Key features:

Utilises modern and familiar examples, including case studies, to illustrate and explore language and communication skill deployment in a variety of given scenarios
Reflects the increasing use of online consultation and the associated importance of ensuring effective communication in virtual settings
Describes several models for reflective practice
Supported by a selection of eResources to enhance reader experience and understanding; visit www.routledge.com/9781032272726
This new book is written specifically for medical students, junior doctors and medical educators looking to develop or teach communication skills. It will instil and support the background understanding of the role, need and ongoing requirement for humanities engagement in self-development and reflection to enhance and improve the experience of both the practitioner and the patient.

Chapter 1: Introduction
1a. Establishing Rapport - People are Social Animals

1b. When Rapport Breaks Down

1c. The Role of the Humanities within Professional Distancing

1d. Models of Communication

1e. Modes of Communication

Chapter 2: A Definition of the Humanities
2a. The Two Hemispheres

2b. C.P. Snow - The Great Divide

2c. What Can the Humanities do for Science?

2d. Cool Story, Poe - Theory of Mind

2e. The Notes Between the Notes Between the Notes: Talking to Eds Chesters

2f. Issues of Accessibility

Chapter 3: The Role of the Humanities in Medicine Through Time
3a. Frankenstein: or the Modern Prometheus (Frankenstein)

3b. Typhoid Fever: There's Something About Mary Mallon

3c. The AIDS Crisis: Art Lives on Forever'

3d. Write Your Own Narrative Journey

Chapter 4: Medical Ethics
4a. The Ethics of Persuasion

4b. Fake News - When Storytelling Cancels Science

4c. The Telephone Game: When Storytelling Goes Wrong

4d. The Tabloid Press

4e. Children in the Media

Chapter 5: Case Scenarios 1
5a. Case Scenario 1a: Azzura (Aggie) Romano

5b. Case Scenario 1b: Oscar James Thompson

5c. Case Scenario 1c: Arnold Gaylor

5d. Case Scenario 1d: Nihal Anand

5e. Case Scenario 1e: Abby Sable-Adamson

Chapter 6: The Art of Communication in Practice
6a. Gillian Lynne - Wriggle Bottom'

Chapter 7: Case Scenarios 2
7a. Case Scenario 2a - Dermatology

7b. Case Scenario 2b DNACPR

7c. Case Scenario 2c Wild Goose Chase'

7d. Case Scenario 2d Neurosurgery

Chapter 8: The Art of Reflection
8a. Jean-Dominique Bauby - The Case of Patient A

Chapter 9: Reflective Models
9a. Rolfe et al.'s Three-stage Model of Reflective Practice (2001)

9b. Kolb's Reflective Model of Experiential Learning (1984)

9c. Gibbs Reflective Cycle (1988)

Chapter 10: Conclusion
Appendix 1 Structured Reflective Templates
11a. Template 1 Rolfe et al.'s Three-Stage Model of Reflective Practice (Rolfe et al, 2001)

11b. Template 2 Kolb's Reflective Model of Experiential Learning (1984)

11c. Template 3 Gibbs Reflective Cycle (1988)

Index