Do art lovers make better doctors?

Kaptein, Adrian A.; Meulenberg, Frans; Smyth, Joshua M.

doi:10.1016/s2213-2600(13)70268-6

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“…Murray recently gave a beautiful example in his paper on how opera ( La Bohème , La Traviata ) may help patients, partners, physicians, and other health care providers in making sense of an illness (here, tuberculosis), and in improving self-management and CCM 73. A related paper in Lancet Respiratory Medicine concluded that novels, poems, music, movies, and paintings about various respiratory illnesses may attain the same objective 17. It is quite remarkable to see how asthma, cystic fibrosis, lung cancer, and tuberculosis are represented in all five art forms; COPD is not 74…”

Section: Incorporating Self-management In Medical Care For Patients Wmentioning

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Self-management in patients with COPD: theoretical context, content, outcomes, and integration into clinical care

Kaptein

Fischer

Scharloo

2014

COPD

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In this narrative review, we put self-management in the context of a 50-year history of research about how patients with COPD respond to their illness. We review a definition of self-management, and emphasize that self-management should be combined with disease management and the chronic care model in order to be effective. Reviewing the empirical status of self-management in COPD, we conclude that self-management is part and parcel of modern, patient-oriented biopsychosocial care. In pulmonary rehabilitation programs, self-management is instrumental in improving patients’ functional status and quality of life. We conclude by emphasizing how studying the way persons with COPD make sense of their illness helps in refining self-management, and thereby patient-reported outcomes in COPD.

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Section: Incorporating Self-management In Medical Care For Patients Wmentioning

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Self-management in patients with COPD: theoretical context, content, outcomes, and integration into clinical care

Kaptein

Fischer

Scharloo

2014

COPD

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“…‘Do art lovers make better doctors?’ was the title of a preliminary examination of whether reading novels and poems, watching films, listening to music, and studying paintings helps medical students and health care professionals be ‘better’ in their work with patients ( Kaptein et al, 2013 ). Defining ‘better’ is the major issue, of course.…”

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Start making sense: Art informing health psychology

Kaptein

Hughes

Murray

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Health Psychology Open

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Growing evidence suggests that the arts may be useful in health care and in the training of health care professionals. Four art genres – novels, films, paintings and music – are examined for their potential contribution to enhancing patient health and/or making better health care providers. Based on a narrative literature review, we examine the effects of passive (e.g. reading, watching, viewing and listening) and active (e.g. writing, producing, painting and performing) exposure to the four art genres, by both patients and health care providers. Overall, an emerging body of empirical evidence indicates positive effects on psychological and physiological outcome measures in patients and some benefits to medical training. Expressive writing/emotional disclosure, psychoneuroimmunology, Theory of Mind and the Common Sense Model of Self-Regulation are considered as possible theoretical frameworks to help incorporate art genres as sources of inspiration for the further development of health psychology research and clinical applications.

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“…A new chapter might be devoted to analyzing how movies, paintings, poems, and music contain elements that may be characterized as 'hysterical'. Earlier, we published a paper on how these five art forms (movies, paintings, poems, and music along with literature) may reflect important phenomenological and experiential themes resultant from asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cystic fibrosis, and lung cancer [24].…”

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Emma Bovary, Hedda Gabler, and Harold Brodkey Would Not Have Lived without Charcot: Hysteria in Novels

2014

Hysteria: The Rise of an Enigma

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Medical humanities is the interdisciplinary field of humanities (literature, philosophy, ethics, history, and religion), social science (anthropology, cultural studies, psychology, and sociology), and the arts (literature, theater, film, and visual arts), and their application to medical education and practice. In this chapter, the concept of 'hysteria' is put into a medical humanities perspective. We review the concept of hysteria concisely. Two novels and one autobiographical story are used as material in order to study how 'hysteria' is represented in literary work. Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert), Hedda Gabler (Henrik Ibsen), and A Story in an Almost Classical Mode (Harold Brodkey) were searched for elements that are characteristic of hysteria. Excessive emotion, dramatics, attention-seeking behavior, physical symptoms of unknown and unidentifiable organic causes, self-centered behavior, and flirtatious behavior are the six elements used to operationalize hysteria. It was found that these elements were present in both a quantitative and qualitative manner in the literary works examined. Acknowledging some limitations and suggesting some research areas and clinical implications, we conclude that literary works are useful in analyzing concepts in medicine. Also, more generally, using literary works seems to have a positive impact on readers, healthcare providers, and researchers in the healthcare domain. Studying novels and related literary work contributes to the body of knowledge of medical humanities.

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Do art lovers make better doctors?

Cited by 9 publications

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Self-management in patients with COPD: theoretical context, content, outcomes, and integration into clinical care

Self-management in patients with COPD: theoretical context, content, outcomes, and integration into clinical care

Start making sense: Art informing health psychology

Emma Bovary, Hedda Gabler, and Harold Brodkey Would Not Have Lived without Charcot: Hysteria in Novels

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