Medical humanities includes the relationship between medicine and humanities and the thinking and summarizing of various medical phenomena and events from the perspective of humanistic concepts.
Since the founding of civilization, human beings have never stopped thinking about life and health, so there are thoughts about medical humanities since ancient times, but the earlier period of medical humanities is just a branch of medicine, generally by long-term or once engaged in the medical staff of the independent thinking summed up some of the conclusions or insights, the medical humanities has long been in the absence of a formal definition of the stage.
With the rapid development of medical technology, human beings are thinking more and more about the humanity of medicine, and the thinking about life is also more and more profound, which provides a very important theoretical basis for the birth of medical humanities; with the continuous improvement of the overall overall quality of medical workers, medical workers are also increasingly thinking and summarizing their work and the quality of their work is also increasing, which provides an important academic basis for the birth of medical humanities. The birth of the medical humanities provides a very important academic foundation.
Development of medical humanities:
Since the 1970s, with the transformation of the medical model from biomedical model to the "physiological-psychological-social" medical model, as well as the exploration of the "purpose and value" of medicine has become a hot topic. The discussion on the "purpose and value" of medicine has become a hot spot, and the teaching and research of medical humanities in China has been on the rise, with some medical schools starting to teach medical humanities one after another, and some works on medical humanities coming out one after another.
From scratch, from small to large, China's medical humanities in this boom has been a great development. However, there are still many shortcomings in the development of medical humanities in China during this period, such as its development is mostly isolated and unidirectional, lack of inter-disciplinary communication and integration, and failure to form a medical humanities discipline group that matches with medicine.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Medical Humanities