Metacognition, Metahumanities, and Medical Education

Thinking Without the Box

This persuasive volume develops a novel approach to medical education and the medical humanities, making a case for the integration of the two to explore the ways in which warm humanism and cold technologies can come together to design humane posthumanist futures in medicine.

This persuasive volume develops a novel approach to medical education and the medical humanities, making a case for the integration of the two to explore the ways in which warm humanism and cold technologies can come together to design humane posthumanist futures in medicine.

There are many problems with conventional medical education. It can be overly technocratic, dehumanizing, and empathy-eroding, introducing artefacts that lead to harm and reproduce inequality and injustice. Use of the arts, humanities, and qualitative social sciences have been pursued as an antidote or balance to these problems. Arguing against the purel