ABSTRACT

This book critically analyses how politics and power affect the ways that medicine is taught and learned. Challenging society’s historic reluctance to connect the realm of politics to the realm of medicine, Medical Education, Politics and Social Justice: The Contradiction Cure emphasizes the need for medical students to engage with social justice issues, including global health crises resulting from the climate emergency, and the health implications of widening social inequality.

Arguing for an increased focus on community-based learning, rather than acute care, this innovative text maps the territory of medicine’s contradictory engagement with politics as a springboard for creative curriculum design. It demonstrates why the socially disempowered - such as political and climate refugees, the homeless, or those without health insurance should be primary subjects of attention for medical students, while exploring how political engagement can be refined, sharp, cultivated and creative, engaging imagination and demanding innovation

Exploring how the medical humanities can promote engagement with politics to improve medical education, this book is a ground-breaking and inspiring contribution. It is an essential read for all those with a focus on medical education and medical humanities, as well as medical and healthcare students with an interest in the social determinants of health.

 

part 1|144 pages

Contradiction as resource

chapter 1|21 pages

Politics

chapter 2|21 pages

Aesthetics

chapter 3|13 pages

Common wealth

chapter 4|11 pages

Climate emergency

chapter 5|12 pages

Political emergency

chapter 6|21 pages

An uncomfortable intimacy

chapter 7|14 pages

Resistance: Part I

chapter 8|15 pages

Resistance: Part II

chapter 9|14 pages

Resistance: Part III

part 2|88 pages

The contradiction cure

chapter 10|19 pages

Contradictions cure

chapter 11|13 pages

Thinking with curriculum

chapter 12|12 pages

Curriculum reconceived

chapter 13|24 pages

Democratic gestures

chapter 14|18 pages

Effective collaboration