Can the humanities influence the clinical science of breathlessness? (Conference panel, Edinburgh, 13 September 2016)

Research Summary: Humanities Approaches to Breathlessness in Clinical Practice

Topic: Medical Humanities & Clinical Science Integration

Focus Area: Interdisciplinary exploration of breathlessness symptom through arts, humanities, and social science perspectives

Speaker/Institution: Jane Macnaughton, Co-Director of Durham University Centre for Medical Humanities

Conference: Edinburgh International Conference of Medicine, 13 September 2016

Panel Discussion: Holistic Advances

Primary Objective: Demonstrate how interdisciplinary interactions between humanities and clinical medicine might influence clinical practice and research outcomes

Evidence Grade: Preliminary—explores potential mechanisms through humanities-informed clinical inquiry rather than traditional clinical trials

Clinical Relevance: Addresses the gap between biomedical understanding and patient experience of breathlessness through holistic methodologies

Jane Macnaughton, Co-Director of Durham University Centre for Medical Humanities, will be giving a talk at the Edinburgh International Conference of Medicine. She will be presenting current work in medical humanities that explores the symptom of breathlessness. Her talk will explain how interdisciplinary interactions between the arts, humanities, social science, clinical medicine and clinical science might influence clinical practice and research. Jane will be contributing to the panel discussion on Holistic Advances.