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The field of medical humanities has attracted serious and growing interest among medical educators around the globe in recent decades. This entry examines how the concept of medical humanities was born, how the ground for its integration into medical education was prepared, and how it gained institutional standing. It then deals with the nature of its impact on the world of professional medicine, the problems of defining the term, its current status in medical education, and the challenges that it needs to overcome if it is to consolidate and enhance that status.
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Adachi, T. (2016). Medical Humanities. In: ten Have, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09483-0_281
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