Gillis Christina M
J Med Humanit. 2008 Mar;29(1):5-14. doi: 10.1007/s10912-007-9045-x.
Accepting as a given that the humanities disciplines are not product or "results" driven, this paper argues that the core of an interdisciplinary field of medicine and humanities, or medical humanities, is an interpretive enterprise that is not readily open to quantitative assessment. A more humanistically oriented medical practice can derive, however, from the process that produces new insights and works toward the development of a new, mutually shared, and humanizing language.
鉴于人文学科并非以产品或“成果”为导向，本文认为医学与人文交叉领域（即医学人文）的核心是一项解释性事业，不易进行定量评估。然而，一种更具人文导向的医疗实践可以源自产生新见解并致力于发展一种新的、相互共享且人性化语言的过程。
