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- Title
Can Reading Tolstoy Make Us Better Physical Therapists? The Role of the Health Humanities in Physical Therapy.
- Authors
Blanton, Sarah; Greenfield, Bruce H; Jensen, Gail M; Swisher, Laura Lee; Kirsch, Nancy R; Davis, Carol; Purtilo, Ruth
- Abstract
The article discusses the role and importance of literature in physical therapy (PT) education and its practice. Topics covered include the influence of writers like Russian Leo Tolstoy particularly in his book "The Death of Ivan Ilyich," the growing discipline of health humanities and its application in the practice of PT, and the importance of incorporating the discipline of health humanities into the PT course curriculum.
- Subjects
CLINICAL competence; CONVERSATION; CURRICULUM; HUMANITIES; INTERDISCIPLINARY education; INTERPERSONAL relations; MEDICAL practice; MENTORING; PHYSICAL therapy; PHYSICAL therapy education; READING; REFLECTION (Philosophy); STUDENT attitudes; AFFINITY groups; DOCTORAL programs; COURSE evaluation (Education); POETRY (Literary form); PHYSICAL therapy students; PHYSICAL therapists' attitudes
- Publication
Physical Therapy, 2020, Vol 100, Issue 6, p885
- ISSN
0031-9023
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/ptj/pzaa027