Browsing by Subject "heart transplant"

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    Medicine and the Arts Week 1 - Brave heart, faint heart, new heart
    (2015-01-21) Henkeman, Stanley
    In this video, heart transplant recipient Stanley Henkeman describes his own journey from an active life, to living with debilitating heart disease and finally as a recipient of a new heart. He reflects on his experiences and feelings during this journey and emphasises how the perspective and narrative of the patient is critically important in the ongoing endeavour to make healthcare more humane. This is the sixth video in Week 1 of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course.
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    Medicine and the Arts Week 1 - In dialogue about the heart
    (2015-01-21) Reid, Steve; Brink, Johan; Anderson, Peter; Henkeman, Stanley
    In this video, Professor Steve Reid poses additional questions to Professor Johan Brink, poet Peter Anderson, and heart transplant recipient Stanley Henkeman to try to tease out the different disciplinary perspectives on the heart and heart transplantation. This is the seventh video in Week 1 of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course.
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    Medicine and the Arts Week 1 - On heart transplants
    (2015-01-21) Brink, Johan
    In this video, Johan Brink, discusses how his perspective on heart transplantation is informed by his experience as a cardiac surgeon. He emphasises the centrality of the heart for being human: physically, as an organ which keeps our bodies alive and emotionally, as a symbol of our feelings of love. He also notes that that a heart transplant is a complex medical procedure that raises a number of ethical questions. This is the fourth video in Week 1 of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course.
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    Medicine and the Arts Week 1 - The heart of art and literature
    (2015-01-21) Anderson, Peter
    In this video, the poet Peter Anderson discusses the heart from a literary perspective, in terms of metaphor and symbolism. He argues that the heart has been used as a metaphor for life in literature and art for centuries but that heart transplants challenge our traditional understanding of the heart as a symbol of the self. This is the fifth video in Week 1 of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course.
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    Medicine and the Arts Week 1 - The Heart of the Matter
    (2015-01-21) Reid, Steve; Brink, Johan
    In this video, Professor Steve Reid describes how the course will use the extraordinary medical intervention of the heart transplant as a means of understanding the interdisciplinarary nature of the medical humanities. He explains how the heart transplant will be presented from three different perspectives: Professor Johan Brink, a cardiac surgeon, will discuss the medical aspects of the heart transplant, such as the surgery itself and the risks and benefits of the procedure. Peter Andersen, a poet, will discuss the heart from a literary perspective, in terms of metaphor and symbolism. And Stan Henkeman, a heart transplant recipient, will share his personal story of hope and renewal. This is the third video in Week 1 of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course.