Common Ground Publishing Spain published the first issue of the Revista Internacional de Humanidades Médicas. The journal opens a space for dialogue between medical professionals and the humanities in all Spanish and Portuguese countries, with the aim of contributing to rigorously study academic values of our cultures and their interaction medical theory and clinical practice which is our own.
The articles contained in this first issue are:
• “Humanização, humanismos e humanidades. Problematizando conceitos e práticas no contexto da saúde no Brasil”, by Dante Gallian, Luiz Felipe Ponde, Rafael Ruiz
• “Innovación de usuarios y valores humanos en los sistemas sanitarios”, by Javier Echeverría
• “Evaluación de tecnologías sanitarias: factores emocionales en la toma de decisiones”, by Carlos A. Pose Varela, Francesc Borrell Carrió
• “El compromiso ético de la medicina. A propósito de la obra de Alfred I. Tauber”, by Ion Arrieta-Valero
• “¡Son las formas, estúpido! En busca de las claves de la alianza terapéutica desde la gestión de la insatisfacción”, by Antoni Corominas Díaz
• “El binomio discapacidad-enfermedad. Un análisis crítico”, by Francisco Guzmán Castillo
• “El cuerpo como fábrica y el cirujano como su arquitecto”, by Cristóbal Pera
• “Genealogía hipnótica del mito del zombi. Estructura arquetípica”, by Lorenzo Carcavilla
• “Urbanización y salud”, by Jorge L. Tizón
Medical Humanities are a learning, reflection and action, and a place for dialogue between various epistemologies, perspectives and knowledge areas on the border of the Humanities, Social Science and Medicine. It is in these turbulent crossings of human knowledge where humanities may be able to relieve the modern systems of medical knowledge of his (not uncommon) parochialism.
About Common Ground Publishing España: Common Ground Publishing España is the Spanish counterpart to Common Ground Publishing, USA. Both organizations share common goals of commitment to building dynamic knowledge communities that aim to explore and create new ways of disseminating academic knowledge. Common Ground’s 24 knowledge communities are international forums whose aim is to build and share knowledge through an annual conference, scholarly journal, book series and online dialogue space using Common Ground’s path breaking social knowledge software, Scholar. For more information on Common Ground Publishing España visit http://commongroundpublishing.es/. For information on the Spanish Medical Humanities community (Humanidades Médicas) visit http://humanidadesmedicas.com/ideas/