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Teaching Literature and History of Medicine in the National Health Service (2018)

Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology
Volume: 26
Issue: 3
Pages: 345-351
Publication date: 2018
Language: English

URI: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/698851

DOI: 10.1353/con.2018.0031

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Science and literature Government agencies Medicine and government Health policy Health promotion Teaching history of medicine Teaching; pedagogy Education 21st century Great Britain

This article responds to Abigail Droge's paper "Teaching Literature and Science in Silicon Valley," which describes the author's experience of teaching literature to students at Stanford, a university with strong links to the tech industry. On reading this paper, I discovered similarities between Droge's aims and experiences and my own experience of teaching literature and the history of medicine as part of a quality improvement (QI) program within the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS). My article focuses on one workshop session that took place in September 2017. I discuss the way in which literature and the history of medicine provides case studies that interact with QI theory, addressing several points raised by Droge.

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Article Abigail Droge (2017) Teaching Literature and Science in Silicon Valley. Journal of Literature and Science (pp. 58-64). unapi

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