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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 - Interdisciplinarity in the medical humanities
(2015-01-21) Reid, Steve
In this video, Professor Steve Reid describes how when looking at the practices of healthcare and medicine there are two perspectives we could consider, namely from the outside-in and from the inside-out. He explains how the outside-in perspective comes from the social sciences and arts while the inside-out represents the medical sciences. This is the eighth 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 - Role of the Medical Humanities in humanising healthcare
(2015-01-21) Reid, Steve
In this video, Professor Steve Reid describes the various understandings of the field of medical humanities. He explains that the most common understanding of the field is as a dialogue between science and medicine but also highlights other understandings such as art therapy and the applied arts. This is the second 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.
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Medicine and the Arts Week 1 - Welcome to the course
(2015-01-21) Reid, Steve; Levine, Susan
In this video, Associate Professor Susan Levine and Professor Steve Reid from the University of Cape Town introduce the purpose and design of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course. They introduce the concept of medical humanities as a pedagogy to assist in the education and training of medical students in South Africa, addressing the specific social and cultural experiences of healthcare in South Africa and how an interdisciplinary approach between the humanities and medical science can provide a useful lens for addressing the healthcare needs of the country. This is the first video in Week 1 of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course.
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Medicine and the Arts Week 2 - Giving voice to children's experiences
(2015-01-21) Callaghan, Nina
In this video, Nina Callaghan, programme director at the Children’s Radio Foundation, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), discusses the power of storytelling for sick children using the medium of radio, where material is created by children confined to hospitals. She explains how she sees storytelling and healing as inter-related processes that can help children restore some of the agency that they often appear to lack in society. This is the fourth video in Week 2 of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course.
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Medicine and the Arts Week 2 - In dialogue about children's voices
(2015-01-21) Levine, Susan; Callaghan, Nina; Abney, Kate; Hendricks, Marc
In this video, Associate Professor Susan Levine pose questions to Dr. Hendricks, Dr. Kate Abney, as well as Nina Callaghan in an attempt to unlock some of the synergies that brings their various perspectives into focus. Marc Hendricks is asked how doctors take care of themselves in dealing with the deaths, illness and victories of their patients’ stories. Kate talks about how she has used art as part of her research methodology and discusses how the issue of time surfaced in her work at the TB hospital. Nina provides an example of a child she had worked with. This is the fifth video in Week 2 of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course.
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Medicine and the Arts Week 2 - Issues of children's voices
(2015-01-21) Levine, Susan
In this video, Associate Professor Susan Levine makes the point that we need a better understanding of how children experience chronic illness in institutional settings. She argues that the medical humanities can help us to listen to children's voices and to better understand their experiences of illness. She introduces three guest speakers, all of whose work focuses in one way or another on listening to the stories of youth and young people. This is the first video in Week 2 of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course.
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Medicine and the Arts Week 2 - My song for the living
(2015-01-21) Hendricks, Marc
In this video, paediatric oncologist Mark Hendricks discusses the intersections between music and healing in the context of caring for children with cancer in middle-income settings. He discusses the importance of listening to and understanding the individual needs of children, and he emphasizes the importance of family-centered care, with the need to consider the social and cultural context when caring for children with cancer. This is the second video in Week 2 of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course.
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Medicine and the Arts Week 3 - "Wings" by Malika Ndlovu
(2015-01-21) Ndlovu, Malika
In this video, applied artist Malika Ndlovu performs a poetry reading. This is the second video in Week 3 of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course.
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Medicine and the Arts Week 3 - Art and play
(2015-01-21) Solms, Mark
In this video, neuropsychologist Mark Solms explains how, from a neuroscientific perspective, our innate drive to play might be an underlying evolutionary mechanism for testing real world interactions. He suggests that art is then an expression of the human instinct to play and artistic expression offers society ways of creatively representing meaning. This is the fifth video in Week 3 of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course.
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Medicine and the Arts Week 3 - Art embodies values
(2015-01-21) Solms, Mark
In this video, neuropsychologist Mark Solms describes how he sees neuroscience offering some insights into understanding how people respond to art and make aesthetic judgments. He argues that there is an underlying evolutionary explanation for these aesthetic judgements and suggests that the medical humanities can draw on other disciplinary fields in order to consider other perspectives on being human. This is the fourth video in Week 3 of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course.
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Medicine and the Arts Week 3 - In dialogue about mind, art and play
(2015-01-21) Levine, Susan; Ndlovu, Malika; Ramugondo, Elelwani; Solms, Mark
In this video, Susan Levine asks Elelwani Ramugondo, Mark Solms, and Malika Ndlovu to elaborate on several aspects of play from their unique disciplinary perspectives. Elelwani reflects on how what people do has a fundamental influence on health. Mark expands on the way modern urban society has changed the traditional ways we live, work, and play. Malika details how the applied arts can be used as part of patient-centred treatment. This is the seventh video in Week 3 of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course.
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Medicine and the Arts Week 3 - Issues of mind, art and play
(2015-01-21) Levine, Susan
In this video, Associate Professor Susan Levine introduces Elelwani Ramugondo, an occupational therapist, Mark Solms, a neuropsychologist, and Malika Ndlovu, an applied artist who all have different perspectives on the mind, art and play.
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Medicine and the Arts Week 3 - Mind, art and play - an artist's interpretation
(2015-01-21) Ndlovu, Malika
In this video, applied artist Malika Ndlovu breaks down the three concepts of mind, play, and the arts and the intersection of these three concepts. She defines the mind as the ability to make sense of the world, play as a more fluid and spontaneous activity that allows for exploration and discovery, and the arts as a way of expressing ourselves creatively and connecting with others. This is the sixth video in Week 3 of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course.
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Medicine and the Arts Week 3 - Play in everyday contexts
(2015-01-21) Ramugondo, Elelwani
In this video, Elelwani Ramugondo, a medical anthropologist, talks about play in everyday contexts. She argues that play is often overlooked as a valuable tool for healing. She believes that play can help people to cope with stress, anxiety, and trauma. It can also help people to develop new skills and perspectives. This is the third video in Week 3 of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course.
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Medicine and the Arts Week 4 - Birth and creativity
(2015-01-21) Dyer, Silke
In this video, gynaecologist and fertility specialist Silke Dyer speaks about the physiological processes of human reproduction, and some of the creative solutions in assisted reproductive technology (ART) to help infertile couples conceive. This is the fourth video in Week 4 of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course.