Metacognition, Metahumanities, and Medical Education

This persuasive volume develops a novel approach to medical education and the medical humanities, making a case for the integration of the two to explore the ways in which ‘warm’ humanism and ‘cold’ technologies can come together to design humane posthumanist futures in medicine.

There are many problems with conventional medical education. It can be overly technocratic, dehumanizing, and empathy-er...