Since the establishment of civilization, human beings have never stopped thinking about life and health, so there have been thoughts and remarks about medical humanities since ancient times. However, in the early days, medical humanities was only a branch of medicine, which was generally some conclusions or experiences summarized by medical personnel who had been engaged in independent thinking for a long time, and medical humanities was in the stage of no formal definition for a long time.
With the rapid development of medical technology, human beings are thinking more and more about the humanism of medicine and life, which provides a very important theoretical basis for the birth of medical humanism. With the continuous improvement of the overall comprehensive quality of medical workers, medical workers' thinking and summary of their work are also increasing, and their quality is also improving, which provides an important academic foundation for the birth of medical humanities.
The development of medical humanities;
Since the 1970s, with the transformation of medical model from biomedical model to "physiological-psychological-social" medical model, and the discussion about medical "purpose and value" has become a hot topic, the teaching and research of medical humanities in China has become a craze, and some medical colleges have started teaching medical humanities one after another, and some works on medical humanities have also come out.
From scratch, from small to large, China medical humanities has made great progress in this upsurge. However, there are still many shortcomings in the development of medical humanities in China during this period, such as isolated and one-way development, lack of inter-disciplinary communication and integration, and failure to form a medical humanities group that matches medicine.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Medical Humanities