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Humanities
The term ‘Anthropocene’ was proposed by the geological and natural sciences community to describe the current geological epoch and show the influence...
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The art of equity: critical health humanities in practice
BackgroundThe American Association of Medical Colleges has called for incorporation of the health humanities into medical education, and many medical...
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New Humanities
The New Humanities are a significant critical and creative response to the Anthropocene, especially the Environmental, Medical, Public and Digital...
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Ethical Challenges in Mariculture: Adopting a Feminist Blue Humanities Approach
As mariculture—the cultivation of aquatic organisms in marine environment—intensifies to meet the demands of sustainable blue growth and national...
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Non-causal Explanations in the Humanities: Some Examples
The humanistic disciplines aim to offer explanations of a wide variety of phenomena. Philosophical theories of explanation have focused mostly on...
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The Humanities in Hermeneutic-Anthropological Perspective
This chapter aims at an understanding of the distinctive role of the humanities. The first part offers, with reference to Helmuth PlessnerPlessner,...
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One hundred years of neurosciences in the arts and humanities, a bibliometric review
BackgroundNeuroscientific approaches have historically triggered changes in the conception of creativity and artistic experience, which can be...
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Climate Change and the Environmental Humanities
The aim of this chapter is to sketch some of the contributions of the environmental humanities to an understanding of climate change from the...
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Climate Change and the Environmental Humanities
The aim of this chapter is to sketch some of the contributions of the environmental humanities to an understanding of climate change from the...
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The Medical Humanities
This chapter introduces the concept of medical humanities and explains how the choice of the term “medical humanities” is important because there is...
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The Humanities, Business, and the Question of Relevance
This chapter surveys the literature which discusses the so-called relevance of the humanities. This survey frames the rest of the essays that follow...
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Epigenetic this, epigenetic that: comparing two digital humanities methods for analyzing a slippery scientific term
We compared two digital humanities methods in the analysis of a contested scientific term. “Epigenetics” is as enigmatic as it is popular. Some...
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Science, Religion, the Humanities and Hope Essays in Honour of Willem B. Drees
This book collects a multidisciplinary range of contributions focusing on the prolific and seminal work of Willem Drees in the fields of philosophy...
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Alzheimer’s disease: history, ethics and medical humanities in the context of assisted suicide
IntroductionDementia diseases, especially Alzheimer’s disease (AD), are of considerable importance in terms of social policy and health economics....
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Navigating the In-Between: Exploring Interdisciplinarity, the Humanities, and the Role of Philosophy of Religion
Interdisciplinary research has been emphasized as an ideal in recent decades. However, what interdisciplinarity is all about seems to be unclear....
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On the arts and humanities in medical education
This paper aims to position the birth of the Medical Humanities movement in a greater historical context of twentieth century American medical...
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Clinical Ethics in the Context of Medical Humanities
Medical humanities are vital for increasing clinical effectiveness. There is a crisis in medicine and bioethics as the epistemological status of...
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Is Theology Becoming More Science-Like When Approaching Science? A Reconfiguration of Humanities
A minority of theologians has engaged in recent decades with the social and natural sciences. In most cases this endeavour has been motivated by a...
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The Role of the Humanities in the Formation of Reflective Engineering Practitioners
It is argued that deficiencies in reflection are found not so much in engineers vis-a-vis philosophers; but rather in engineering entrants vis-a-vis...
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