title: The medical humanities: toward a renewed praxis.
abstract: In this essay, I explore medical humanities practice in the United States with descriptions offered by fifteen faculty members who participated in an electronic survey. The questions posed focused on the desirability of a core humanities curriculum in medical education; on the knowledge, skills, and values that are found in such a curriculum; and on who should teach medical humanities and make curriculum decisions regarding content and placement. I conclude with a call for a renewed interdisciplinarity in the medical humanities and a move away from the territorial aspects of disciplinary knowledge and methods sometimes found in medical humanities practice.
authors.affiliation: Northeastern Ohio Universities, College of Medicine, Rootstown, OH, USA. dw@neoucom.edu
authors.forename: Delese
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wear
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004501:Education, Medical; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D006809:Humanities / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D014481:United States