Narrativ medicin och medicinsk humaniora

Abstract

Narrative medicine and medical humanities are two adjacent academic fields that in different ways enable interdisciplinary meetings between medicine and the human sciences, and which have been emerging the past decades both internationally and in Sweden. The two fields have different focuses, but also many overlapping interests. This article outlines medical humanities and narrative medicine and the relationship between them, as well as the difficulties in defining what they include. The article discusses how the fields have developed internationally and in Sweden. The article also discusses the educational activities at Lund University, where medical humanities with a narrative focus is part of the medical education, and highlights what the students perceive they gain from it.