- Title
- Healthy communities: history in public
- Creator
- Smith, Mark; Coleborne, Catharine; Armstrong, John
- Relation
- History Making a Difference: New Approaches from Aotearoa p. 113-130
- Relation
- https://www.cambridgescholars.com/history-making-a-difference
- Publisher
- Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- Health history is now a major strand of research in the humanities, and it continues to attract significant audiences through museums, exhibitions and in scholarly settings, including formal university study. We argue in this chapter that health history offers academic historians an important opportunity to engage meaningfully with members of the medical and health community in debates emerging from the “medical humanities”, broadly defined as a set of combined interdisciplinary approaches to medical education. We expand this to include public education inside a public history framework. Underpinning this idea of the combined and interdisciplinary approach is the question what can disciplines such as history, anthropology, philosophy, or creative and performing arts, add to our understandings of health and medicine? As recently noted in a new special issue of the journal Medical Humanities, the arts, humanities and social sciences are “best viewed not as in service or in opposition to the clinical and life sciences, but as … entangled with a biomedical culture”.
- Subject
- health history; academic historians; medical humanities; New Zealand
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1397406
- Identifier
- uon:34262
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781443851992
- Language
- eng
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