• Medicine and the Arts Week 6 - Death and the corpse

  

  Author: Levine, Susan Date: 21 Jan 2015 In this video, Associate Professor Susan Levine introduces the topic of death and the corpse. She outlines how a multi-disciplinary approach will be used to address questions related to the topic and introduces the guest educators who will ... Read more c b n d
• Medicine and the Arts Week 6 - The sociology of death

  

  Author: Posel, Deborah Date: 21 Jan 2015 In this video, sociologist Deborah Posel, discusses the philosophical implications of death, arguing that death is integral to what we understand by "life". She also discusses the symbolic investment in death in human societies and what the ... Read more c b n d
• Medicine and the Arts Week 6 - Forensic aesthetics

  

  Author: Smith, Kathryn Date: 21 Jan 2015 In this video, Kathryn Smith, a forensic artist, presents a philosophical exploration of photography, truth, evidence and indexicality as each one intersects with the corpse. In terms of photographing the dead as a forensic artist, Kathryn ... Read more c b n d
• Medicine and the Arts Week 6 - The discipline of death

  

  Author: Posel, Deborah Date: 21 Jan 2015 In this video, Deborah Posel, a sociologist, explores the journey taken by medical professionals as they become familiar with the intimate details of death and dying. She considers how medical students explore the corpse in order to reveal ... Read more c b n d
• Medicine and the Arts Week 6 - Dicing with death

  

  Author: Martin, Lorna Date: 21 Jan 2015 Warning: this video contains images from a real autopsy procedure. Lorna Martin, a forensic pathologist, talks about the forensic scientist’s work with human corpses and describes in some detail the standard procedure for dissecting and ... Read more c b n d
• Medicine and the Arts Week 6 - In dialogue about the corpse

  

  Author: Levine, Susan ; Posel, Deborah ; Smith, Kathryn ; Martin, Lorna Date: 21 Jan 2015 In this video, Susan Levine reflects on how each of the three speakers in previous videos used their different perspectives to address the topic of death and the corpse and poses additional questions to them. Lorna is asked about her interaction ... Read more c b n d
• Medicine and the Arts Week 6 - Philani's reflections on the course

  

  Author: Sikhakhane, Philani Date: 21 Jan 2015 In this video, former Master's student Philani Sikhakhane reflects on a choeregraphed dance in which he reflects on the medical humanities. This is the seventh video in Week 6 of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course. Read more c b n d
• Medicine and the Arts Week 6 - What we have learnt and thanks to everyone

  

  Author: Levine, Susan ; Reid, Steve Date: 21 Jan 2015 Professor Steve Reid and Associate Professor Susan Levine reflect on the 'Medicine and the Arts' course as a whole and discuss what they have learned and found interesting in creating and sharing the course with others. This is the eighth ... Read more c b n d
• Medicine and the Arts Week 2 - In dialogue about children's voices

  

  Author: Levine, Susan ; Callaghan, Nina ; Abney, Kate ; Hendricks, Marc Date: 21 Jan 2015 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 ... Read more c b n d
• Medicine and the Arts Week 2 - Giving voice to children's experiences

  

  Author: Callaghan, Nina Date: 21 Jan 2015 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 ... Read more c b n d
• Medicine and the Arts Week 2 - Me and TB: children's accounts of tuberculosis and the clinic

  

  Author: Abney, Kate Date: 21 Jan 2015 In this video, medical anthropologist Kate Abney shares some of the stories told by young patients in the tuberculosis (TB) wards of hospitals across South Africa’s Western Cape where she worked. She describes how she has helped to facilitate ... Read more c b n d
• Medicine and the Arts Week 2 - My song for the living

  

  Author: Hendricks, Marc Date: 21 Jan 2015 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 ... Read more c b n d
• Medicine and the Arts Week 2 - Issues of children's voices

  

  Author: Levine, Susan Date: 21 Jan 2015 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 ... Read more c b n d
• Medicine and the Arts Week 3 - In dialogue about mind, art and play

  

  Author: Levine, Susan ; Ndlovu, Malika ; Ramugondo, Elelwani ; Solms, Mark Date: 21 Jan 2015 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 ... Read more c b n d
• Medicine and the Arts Week 3 - Mind, art and play - an artist's interpretation

  

  Author: Ndlovu, Malika Date: 21 Jan 2015 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 ... Read more c b n d
• Medicine and the Arts Week 4 - Innovation and entrepreneurship in medicine

  

  Author: Bonnici, Francois Date: 21 Jan 2015 In this video, François Bonnici, the Director of the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship, reveals his personal journey to becoming involved with social innovation beginning as a young doctor struggling to find solutions to ... Read more c b n d
• Medicine and the Arts Week 4 - Cultivating creative thoughts

  

  Author: Baghai-Wadji, Alireza Date: 21 Jan 2015 In this video, Alireza Baghai-Wadji, and electrical engineer, explores various questions related to creativity, its origins, and the idea that creativity is an ability that can be acquired. He also he discusses his ideas about the converging ... Read more c b n d
• Medicine and the Arts Week 4 - Creative process

  

  Author: Reid, Steve Date: 21 Jan 2015 In this video, Steve Reid introduces the ideas of human reproduction and creativity while highlighting that such ideas are crucial in order to make the most of what is available in a situation of limited resources for health in an African ... Read more c b n d
• Medicine and the Arts Week 5 - An insider view

  

  Author: Reid, Steve Date: 21 Jan 2015 In this video, Professor Steve Reid reflects on the various issues covered in the previous set of videos, namely the insider view of mental illness and how poetry and music can serve to improve the public's understanding of mental illness. ... Read more c b n d
• Medicine and the Arts Week 5 - Art speaks to and from silence

  

  Author: Reid, Steve ; Dowling, Finuala ; Baumann, Sean Date: 21 Jan 2015 In this video, Professor Steve Reid continues his conversation with Finuala Downling and Sean Baumann about how art can be used to bring public attention to difficult and hidden areas of mental illness. Finuala discusses the methods he uses ... Read more c b n d

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