We have launched!

I am very excited to launch the Medicine, Arts, Humanities website and resource list.

I have worked in primary care education for over 15 years. During that time I have had the privilege of working with a great many inspiring medical professionals. I gradually became fascinated by the lives in medicine that my colleagues had chosen for themselves and in an attempt to understand them better I turned to the arts and humanities, as many people do when they are examining the human condition.

These disciplines not only help us to understand the people who choose to work in the medical profession but also offer a means for those same people to see how the profession and the outside world perceives them. The arts and humanities offer the medical profession both reflection and revelation, familiarity and new perspectives. Furthermore, the arts and humanities are being used to help professionals improve their consultations and patient care. They are being used in recovery pathways, in therapy, and applied for health benefits for both patients and professionals.

I created this list and website as a means of sharing the resources I found. I take no credit for the books, artworks, repositories, centres, and essays I signpost. My simple hope is that you will go on to find them, use them, and that they serve as a springboard for exploring your own research interests.