Metacognition, Metahumanities, and Medical Education

Dr Alan Bleakley is Emeritus Professor of Medical Education and Medical Humanities at Plymouth University Peninsula School of Medicine, UK. He is Past President of the Association for Medical Humanities. Dr Rachel Ellaway is a Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences and Director of the Office of Health and Medical Education Scholarship at the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She is also Editor in Chief of the journal Advances in Health Sciences Education. Dr Quentin Eichbaum is Professor of Pathology, Immunology and Microbiology at Vanderbilt University Medical Centre where he co-directs the Transfusion Medicine Service, and Professor of Medical Education and Administration at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine where he was Assistant Dean and developed and directed the College Colloquium medical humanities program.

Preface

Introduction:

PART 1

1: Forms of metahumanism

2: Meta-cognition and the making of meaning

3: Metacognition, meta-affect, and the clinical encounter: language matters

4: Knowing more than we can say: the tacit dimension and the unconscious ego

5: Thinking outside the brain: the extended mind and metahumanities

6: Heuristics and metaheuristics

PART 2

7: Forms of attention: the ground for meta-cognition

8: Perception: immaculate or illusory? Whither then metacognition and metahumanities?

9: Capability, augmentation, metacognition

10: Realising the extended mind

11: Metacognition and pattern thinking

12: From empathy to compathy in medical education

PART 3

13: Metahumanities in medical education: a manifesto

References

Index