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Abstracts fra Bibliotek for Læger 4/2013

14. sep. 2018
3 min.

Leder: Lægekunst
Redaktionen

Originalartikel: Fagfeltet litteratur og medicin 
Michael Høxbro Andersen & Jens Lohfert Jørgensen

The Field of Literature and Medicine.

Bibl Læger 2013; 205: 334-59.

This article introduces the emerging field of Literature and Medicine in Denmark. In the two introductory sections, the interest in, and the history of the field from the point of view of medicine and of literary criticism are mapped out. In the following sections, six different theoretical approaches to the field are presented: narrative medicine, represented by the work of the American doctor Rita Charon; a pathographical approach, represented by the American medical humanities professor Anne Hunsaker Hawkins and sociologist Arthur W. Frank; a phenomenological approach, represented by the English author Virginia Woolf and the Swiss literary scholar (and medical historian) Jean Starobinski; a metaphorical approach, represented by the American writer Susan Sontag; a cultural analytical approach; and, finally, a semiotic approach, represented by the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. These approaches are illustrated by a long number of literary works by, amongst others, Siri Hustvedt, Virginia Woolf, Gustave Flaubert and Jens Peter Jacobsen. The article concludes with a description of the current status of the field of Literature and Medicine in Denmark and the Nordic countries.

Kvartalets genstand
Morten A. Skydsgaard

Originalartikel: Den nødvendige indlevelse - Litteratur, medicin og (ud)dannelse 
Eva Hammershøy

Eva Hammershøy: The essential rapport. Literature, medicine and education

BfL 2013;205:362-75.

The medical humanities attempt to emphasise the subjective experience of patients within the objective and scientific world of medicine. Pre- and postgraduate teaching of literature in medical schools may be one way to further the goal of medical humanities. This article refers to international and national experiences of teaching literature in medical schools and the aims of the teaching: to develop students’ and practitioners’ skills in thinking critically and reflectively about their roles as doctors. The competencies of the seven roles that must be achieved in postgraduate training and the evaluating methods of the training are linked to the aims of teaching literature. Literary examples of fictive doctors’ behaviour with patients are analysed and their professional competencies and emphatic skills, or lack of skills, are examined to demonstrate the importance of the doctor’s rapport with the patient and to show how literature may contribute to underscore this significance of this and the many other competencies described in the postgraduate training curriculum, as well as help focusing on the ethical dimensions of the meeting between doctors and patients. A possible broader introduction to teaching literature in Danish medical schools, involving national and international experiences, including considerations of whether literature written by doctors is specifically suited, is considered.

Novelle: Mesotheliom
Jens Smærup Sørensen

Digt: Vaccination
Klaus Rifbjerg

Novelle: Syv episoder
Pia Juul

Novelle: Langsomt over græsset
Mathilde Walter Clark