Affiliation:
1. University of Otago, New Zealand
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic challenges us to rethink of the role of health humanities and its relationship to medicine. How medicine regards health humanities has evolved from a desirable hobby or pastime into a complementary practice to improve core medical skills. As the pandemic revolves, evolves, and resolves, there is a need for health humanities to provide a moral and social conscience for medicine, especially around issues of health inequities, given the difficulties that bioethics now has in performing this role. It is an advantage to be positioned outside medicine in performing this very necessary task, which has been so illuminated by the experiences of the pandemic. Narratives, in all forms, continue to inspire action: a gift (koha) from health humanities, which cares for both those who receive and give.
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