| Medicine and music: three relations considered. | |
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PMID: 17551813 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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Two well-recognised, but inherently reductionist, relations between medicine and music are the attempted neuro-scientific understanding of responses to music and interest in music's contributions to clinical therapy. This paper proposes a third relation whereby music is seen as an organising metaphor for clinical medicine as a practice. Both music and clinical medicine affirm human well-being, and both do this inter alia through varieties of skilful, crafted yet spontaneous mutual engagement between a 'performer' and an 'audience'. I argue that this organising metaphor offers a corrective to the reductionist influences of the first two relations, illuminates a number of medicine's important features, and reaffirms the existential as being at the core of medicine's telos. |
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Authors:
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H M Evans |
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Type: Journal Article |
Journal Detail:
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Title: The Journal of medical humanities Volume: 28 ISSN: 1041-3545 ISO Abbreviation: J Med Humanit Publication Date: 2007 Sep |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2007-07-26 Completed Date: 2007-10-16 Revised Date: - |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 8917478 Medline TA: J Med Humanit Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 135-48 Citation Subset: IM |
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Centre for Arts and Humanities in Health and Medicine, Durham University, Room 323 Dawson Building, Science Site, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK. h.m.evans@durham.ac.uk |
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Grief* Humans Mental Disorders / therapy* Metaphor* Music / psychology* Music Therapy* Philosophy |
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