Students more familiar with the quantifiable knowledge taught in medical and premedical curricula become aware that this perspective is not the only or even the most comprehensive way to see health, illness, and healing.

A description of therapeutic applications of art making in the elderly population.

A passage from the Talmud can spark varied reflections among medical students.

Advocates for the medical humanities believe that studying art, history, literature, and music changes how we look at the world and others in it.

The medical humanities can help students access and learn information they might otherwise find very difficult to master.

A description of the Fulginiti Pavilion and the Arts and Humanities in Healthcare Program at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

Why must we prove that the arts and humanities make better doctors? Similar demands are not made on the traditional components of medical education.

It is unclear whether the decreased risk of injury associated with prohibiting a teenage boy from playing football outweighs the benefits to his health and well-being of allowing him to participate.

The use of medication for the prevention and treatment of life-threatening altitude-related illness is very different, medically and morally, from the use of medication to enhance performance.

Distinctions between treatment and enhancement, and between supposedly authentic and inauthentic tools, often inform judgments about what is morally acceptable in sport.