HLTB50H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Critical Inquiry
5 Oct 2016
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A new interdisciplinary field of study that asks: What is the contribution of the humanities (e. g. literature, film, visual, and performing arts) to the critical study of health and illness: techniques for living. A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of diseases or infirmity . Health is seen as a resource for everyday life, In the who definition of health, doesn"t suggest the only way we can understand or come to know about health and illness is by medical science. A cluster of disciplines that study of how people process and document the human experience through creative/and or intellectual expression. Often distinguished from the empirical approaches typical to the natural (and some social) sciences: i. e. critical, speculative, creative, and historical methods. Involve critical inquiry (the analysis of judgement) and aesthetics (the principles of beauty and artistic taste)
