‘Narrating health’, medical popularisation through literature
Mar 13, 2018
The new Mètode monograph, Narrating health, shows the different ways in which the literature connects medicine and health.
Etiqueta: literature
Literature in medical teaching
Dec 02, 2017
Literature constitutes an important educational element that can improve the doctor-patient relationship because it facilitates better understanding of illnesses.
Vacation stories
Dec 02, 2017
Santiago Ramón y Cajal was also the author of some very important scientific and biographical work as well as his Vacation stories. Five science fiction tales, a collection of five short stories with an educational purpose.
Death in literature
Dec 01, 2017
Literature has had a range of ways to approach the concept of death, from expressions of personal grief, through to the ways they are represented in a culture.
Narrating health
Dec 01, 2017
La literatura ha estat, és i serà un element nuclear en l’estudi de les distintes formes de representació semiòtica de la salut i de la malaltia. Hi ha dos elements essencials perquè això siga així; en primer lloc, el fet que l’activitat relacionada amb la salut i la malaltia, també en entorns professionals, està travessada contínuament per narracions (a vegades, en forma d’informes o apunts presos en escoltar el relat del pacient); el segon és que, certament, el fet d’emmalaltir i el de curar va associat a circumstàncies de vegades excepcionals i suggeridores per a la creació.
«Gratitude», by Oliver Sacks
Jul 28, 2016
«Em veig ara confrontat amb la mort però no he acabat amb la vida.» Aquesta és la cita que encapçala 'Gratitude', un llibre brevíssim –es llegeix en mitja horeta– però d’una intensitat poc comuna.
Naturalist Sacks
Nov 16, 2015
The disappearance of Oliver Sacks on 30 August 2015 marked the end of an era. His final farewell represented the loss of a great figure, an immensely influential voice truncated. The lament for the passing away of the poet neurologist was
Science and Literature
Jul 23, 2014
Derby Museum and Art Gallery Figure 1. Joseph Wright of Derby. The Alchemist in Search of the Philosopher’s Stone Discovers Phosphorus, 1771. Oil on canvas, 101.6 x 127 cm. Entering an alchemist’s laboratory with its strange equipment, weird smells, bubbling concoctions, the arcane symbols of Hermetic
The Scientist’s Imaginary Life
Jul 23, 2014
Social Robots
Jul 23, 2014
Wakamaru ABSTRACTIndustrial robots and androids in science fiction were worlds apart until recently, but now begin to merge with the rapid development of social robotics. Given the growing need for labour in the healthcare and service sectors, robots are
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