Atkinson Sarah, Evans Bethan, Woods Angela, Kearns Robin
Department of Geography and the Centre for Medical Humanities, Durham University, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK,
J Med Humanit. 2015 Mar;36(1):71-81. doi: 10.1007/s10912-014-9314-4.
As befits an emerging field of enquiry, there is on-going discussion about the scope, role and future of the medical humanities. One relatively recent contribution to this debate proposes a differentiation of the field into two distinct terrains, 'medical humanities' and 'health humanities,' and calls for a supersession of the former by the latter. In this paper, we revisit the conceptual underpinnings for a distinction between 'the medical' and 'health' by looking at the history of an analogous debate between 'medical geography' and 'the geographies of health' that has, over the last few years, witnessed a re-blurring of the distinction. Highlighting the value of this debate within the social sciences for the future development of the medical humanities, we call for scholars to take seriously the challenges of critical and cultural theory, community-based arts and health, and the counter-cultural creative practices and strategies of activist movements in order to meet the new research challenges and fulfill the radical potential of a critical medical humanities.
作为一个新兴的研究领域,关于医学人文学科的范围、作用和未来一直存在着讨论。最近对这场辩论的一个贡献是提议将该领域分为两个不同的领域,即“医学人文”和“健康人文”,并呼吁后者取代前者。在本文中,我们通过审视“医学地理学”和“健康地理学”之间类似辩论的历史,重新审视“医学”和“健康”之间区别的概念基础。在过去几年里,这场辩论见证了两者区别的重新模糊。我们强调社会科学领域这场辩论对医学人文学科未来发展具有的价值,呼吁学者认真对待批判理论和文化理论、基于社区的艺术与健康,以及激进主义运动的反文化创作实践和策略所带来的挑战,以应对新的研究挑战,并发挥批判性医学人文学科的激进潜力。