Medical Humanities Exam 1 UPDATED
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Educare - CORRECT ANSWER to draw out
Root word of education
Quote by Dr. Giorgio Bordin - CORRECT ANSWER "...it is people but not eyes that
see. Seeing is more than the physical experience. It is the way in which the visual experience
is had. And this is shaped by prior knowledge."
"It is the most scientific of the humanities and the most humane of the sciences" was said by -
CORRECT ANSWER Pellegrino
Where did the humanities originate - CORRECT ANSWER -Athens, Greece 5th BCE
-used to educate free men to govern in a democracy
Cicero - CORRECT ANSWER Roman statesman, politician, philosopher and lawyer
who used term humanitas to describe the ideal leader, the ideal man
Petrarch - CORRECT ANSWER rediscovered Cicero's work, father of Humanism
Three-fold aim of humanistic education - CORRECT ANSWER Humanistic education
aims at forming a whole person who is compassionate, knowledgeable and who acts in the
world
Methods (humanities) - CORRECT ANSWER cultivation of language, analysis of
ideas, literary and artistic criticism, and historiography
Disciplines of Humanities - CORRECT ANSWER language, literature, history,
philosophy to religious studies, jurisprudence and those aspects of the social
sciences(anthropology, sociology, psychology
,Description of humanities - CORRECT ANSWER educate the emotions as well as the
intellect, to enhance compassion as well as critical thinking and to encourage active
engagement in public and/or professional life. "Humanistic educational ideal"
Johns Hopkins Medical School - CORRECT ANSWER based on the German model
William Osler - CORRECT ANSWER professor at Johns Hopkins, famous for his
command of the humanities and insistence that his students become familiar with the history
of medicine
Edmund Pellegrino - CORRECT ANSWER champion of medical humanities
-roman catholic skeptical of salvation theme of the humanities
Is medical humanities a field or a discipline? - CORRECT ANSWER As a field
because it is both multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary
Anne Jones critique on MH - CORRECT ANSWER Studying the humanities doesn't
automatically make you a better doctor
Eric Cassell - CORRECT ANSWER Concept of patients as persons and the centrality
of personhood in medicine
Disease vs. Illness - CORRECT ANSWER Disease refers to the biomedical model,
illness is the patient's experience with the disease
Our definition of medical humanities - CORRECT ANSWER "An inter- and
multidisciplinary field that explores contexts, experiences, critical, and conceptual issues in
medicine and healthcare while supporting personal identity formation."
Contexts of MH definition - CORRECT ANSWER using various disciplines to
understand cultural and temporal dimensions of medicine.
, Experience of MH definition - CORRECT ANSWER using various disciplines to
understand how it feels to be a patient, a doctor, or a community affected by an epidemic.
Conceptual and critical analysis of MH definition - CORRECT ANSWER using
various disciplines to define and clarify ideas, terms, and issues related to medicine.
Formation of MH definition - CORRECT ANSWER kinds of pedagogy, forms of
scholarship, and ways of teaching and learning that cultivate self-awareness and commitment
to the welfare of others.
Philanthopia - CORRECT ANSWER loving what makes us human
Medical reductionism - CORRECT ANSWER Reducing patients to their sickness
Medical holism - CORRECT ANSWER idea that patients should not be reduced solely
to their diseases or bodies, but rather they should be recognized as a whole person in context
and relations
Hippocrates life and times - CORRECT ANSWER -born in 460 BC in what is now
Turkey
-believed that medical knowledge should be grounded in observation, experience, and reason
rather than in supernatural explanations; medicine divorced from religion and devoted to
systematic observation; discoveries were WRITTEN DOWN
Hippocratic Corpus - CORRECT ANSWER a collection of around 60 early Ancient
Greek medical works strongly associated with the physician Hippocrates and his teachings
Hippocratic Oath - CORRECT ANSWER a set of promises about patient care that new
doctors make when they start practicing medicine
-articulates the moral values that continue to guide medicine today; patient privacy, welfare,
etc)
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Educare - CORRECT ANSWER to draw out
Root word of education
Quote by Dr. Giorgio Bordin - CORRECT ANSWER "...it is people but not eyes that
see. Seeing is more than the physical experience. It is the way in which the visual experience
is had. And this is shaped by prior knowledge."
"It is the most scientific of the humanities and the most humane of the sciences" was said by -
CORRECT ANSWER Pellegrino
Where did the humanities originate - CORRECT ANSWER -Athens, Greece 5th BCE
-used to educate free men to govern in a democracy
Cicero - CORRECT ANSWER Roman statesman, politician, philosopher and lawyer
who used term humanitas to describe the ideal leader, the ideal man
Petrarch - CORRECT ANSWER rediscovered Cicero's work, father of Humanism
Three-fold aim of humanistic education - CORRECT ANSWER Humanistic education
aims at forming a whole person who is compassionate, knowledgeable and who acts in the
world
Methods (humanities) - CORRECT ANSWER cultivation of language, analysis of
ideas, literary and artistic criticism, and historiography
Disciplines of Humanities - CORRECT ANSWER language, literature, history,
philosophy to religious studies, jurisprudence and those aspects of the social
sciences(anthropology, sociology, psychology
,Description of humanities - CORRECT ANSWER educate the emotions as well as the
intellect, to enhance compassion as well as critical thinking and to encourage active
engagement in public and/or professional life. "Humanistic educational ideal"
Johns Hopkins Medical School - CORRECT ANSWER based on the German model
William Osler - CORRECT ANSWER professor at Johns Hopkins, famous for his
command of the humanities and insistence that his students become familiar with the history
of medicine
Edmund Pellegrino - CORRECT ANSWER champion of medical humanities
-roman catholic skeptical of salvation theme of the humanities
Is medical humanities a field or a discipline? - CORRECT ANSWER As a field
because it is both multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary
Anne Jones critique on MH - CORRECT ANSWER Studying the humanities doesn't
automatically make you a better doctor
Eric Cassell - CORRECT ANSWER Concept of patients as persons and the centrality
of personhood in medicine
Disease vs. Illness - CORRECT ANSWER Disease refers to the biomedical model,
illness is the patient's experience with the disease
Our definition of medical humanities - CORRECT ANSWER "An inter- and
multidisciplinary field that explores contexts, experiences, critical, and conceptual issues in
medicine and healthcare while supporting personal identity formation."
Contexts of MH definition - CORRECT ANSWER using various disciplines to
understand cultural and temporal dimensions of medicine.
, Experience of MH definition - CORRECT ANSWER using various disciplines to
understand how it feels to be a patient, a doctor, or a community affected by an epidemic.
Conceptual and critical analysis of MH definition - CORRECT ANSWER using
various disciplines to define and clarify ideas, terms, and issues related to medicine.
Formation of MH definition - CORRECT ANSWER kinds of pedagogy, forms of
scholarship, and ways of teaching and learning that cultivate self-awareness and commitment
to the welfare of others.
Philanthopia - CORRECT ANSWER loving what makes us human
Medical reductionism - CORRECT ANSWER Reducing patients to their sickness
Medical holism - CORRECT ANSWER idea that patients should not be reduced solely
to their diseases or bodies, but rather they should be recognized as a whole person in context
and relations
Hippocrates life and times - CORRECT ANSWER -born in 460 BC in what is now
Turkey
-believed that medical knowledge should be grounded in observation, experience, and reason
rather than in supernatural explanations; medicine divorced from religion and devoted to
systematic observation; discoveries were WRITTEN DOWN
Hippocratic Corpus - CORRECT ANSWER a collection of around 60 early Ancient
Greek medical works strongly associated with the physician Hippocrates and his teachings
Hippocratic Oath - CORRECT ANSWER a set of promises about patient care that new
doctors make when they start practicing medicine
-articulates the moral values that continue to guide medicine today; patient privacy, welfare,
etc)
