期刊名称：Eä : Revista de Humanidades Médicas & Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología
电子版ISSN：1852-4680
出版年度：2010
卷号：2
期号：1
出版社：ISO-CYTE
摘要：Literature-centered medicine is a nontraditional learning method developed to supplement medical didactic curricula. With this method, a work of medically related fiction was used as a starting point in the exploration of various historical and contemporary topics. The project initially involved reading Morton Thompson’s The Cry and the Covenant, a fictionalized biography of the Hungarian obstetrician Ignac Semmelweis, known for promoting antisepsis in nineteenth-century Europe. Subsequently, a branching analysis of five major topics generated from this work was conducted. Multiple parallels were identified between nineteenth-century and twenty-first century medical communities. The group concluded that approaching medicine from this nontraditional angle was an intellectually stimulating way to learn and an excellent supplement to didactic education. Literature-centered medicine led to an exploration of issues that would have otherwise been overlooked in a standard learning environment, while also providing an opportunity to apply history to the understanding of modern medical practice.
关键词：hospital-acquired infections; nosocomial infections; hand washing; ;noncompliance; puerperal fever; history of medicine; medical education; ;nineteenth-century; medical economics.
