On the need for an ecologically dimensioned medical humanities

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dc.contributor.authorCoope, Jonathan
dc.date.acceptance2020-09-10
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-14T13:45:49Z
dc.date.available2020-09-14T13:45:49Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.descriptionThis is also an output of the Institute of Energy and Sustainable Development (IESD) The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.en
dc.description.abstractIncreasing calls from medical professionals and scholars suggest an urgent need for better and more widespread understandings of the ecological dimensions of health. Such calls have included: two recent Lancet special commissions on impacts of climate change on health; and recognition by senior figures from the WHO and UN of relationships between human impacts on the natural world and disease pandemics, with some suggesting prevention of future pandemics may require a radical reassessment of modernity’s relationship with the natural world. Among the medical humanities as a whole, however, calls for better and more widespread understandings of the ecological dimensions of health have not always been as prominent, or urgently expressed, as they might be. This paper, which presumes there is an urgent need for better and more widespread understandings of the ecological dimensions of human health, draws on ecological public health and other models to propose an ecological re-visioning of our conceptions of health and medical humanities; and in ways that challenge some contemporary assumptions about health, well-being and the “good society”. Indeed, once we begin to heed what ecocritic Tim Morton terms “the ecological thought”, we may discover few areas of healthcare and the humanities remain untouched by its implications. With growing recognition that the fate of global human health and the fate of the biosphere are inextricably entwined, the project of a more ecologically dimensioned medical humanities appears both timely and urgent. Such a project may represent a significant opportunity for the medical humanities, but also a significant responsibility.en
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dc.identifier.citationCoope, J. (2020). On the need for an ecologically dimensioned medical humanities. Medical Humanities.en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2019-011720
dc.identifier.issn1468-215X
dc.identifier.issn1473-4265
dc.identifier.urihttps://dora.dmu.ac.uk/handle/2086/20181
dc.language.isoenen
dc.peerreviewedYesen
dc.projectidN/Aen
dc.publisherBMJen
dc.researchinstituteMary Seacole Research Centreen
dc.subjectEcologyen
dc.subjectclimate changeen
dc.subjectsustainabilityen
dc.subjectsystemsen
dc.subjectecopsychologyen
dc.titleOn the need for an ecologically dimensioned medical humanitiesen
dc.typeArticleen

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