上海大学学报(社会科学版) ›› 2022, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (6): 55-66.

• 文艺理论研究 • 上一篇    下一篇

医学人文:沟通科学与人文的桥梁

  

  1. 上海交通大学 人文学院
  • 出版日期:2022-11-15 发布日期:2022-11-16

Medical Humanities: Bridges Linking Science and Humanities

  • Online:2022-11-15 Published:2022-11-16

摘要: 尽管医学与人文学科属于两个截然不同的学科门类,但两者却有着割舍不断的关系。近几年来,崛起于西方学界的医学人文就是这样一个跨越学科界限,同时又相互渗透交融的交叉学科领域。医学人文,顾名思义既是从医学的角度来思考人文学科的问题,同时更是从人文学科的视角来考察医学现象和人体的健康状况。因此,医学人文覆盖了历史、哲学、生物伦理学以及具有浓厚人文传统的社会和行为科学。作为人文学者,或者更确切地说,作为专事文学研究的学者,我们的目的并非是去发现新的医疗手段来确保人类的繁衍发展,而是要通过文学中对历史事件的记载来总结人类发展演化的规律,从而使得冰冷的医学治疗带有情感的温度和人文的关怀。医学与人文的联姻还体现在一些作家的创作生涯及其对作品人物的描写。在当下抗击新冠病毒的斗争中,呼唤一种人文情怀也许可以起到治愈病人的辅助作用。

关键词: 医学人文, 文学, 精神分析, 《夜色温柔》, 人文关怀, 抗击疫情

Abstract:  Although medicine and humanities belong to two completely different disciplines, they cannot be completely separated from each other. In recent years, medical humanities, which have risen from the Western academic circles, are an interdisciplinary field in which the boundaries of disciplines cross, permeate and blend with each other. As the name implies, medical humanities not only reflect on the humanities from the perspective of medicine, but also examine medical phenomena and human health from the perspective of the humanities. The medical humanities therefore encompass history, philosophy, bioethics as well as social and behavioral sciences with strong humanistic traditions. To us humanists, or rather, scholars of literature, we do not aim to discover new medical methods to ensure the survival of the human race, but to sum up the law of human evolution and development through the records of historical events in literature, so as to make the cold medical treatment with emotional warmth and humanistic concern. The marriage of medicine and humanities is also embodied in the career of some writers and their descriptions of characters. In the current fight against COVID-19, calling for a human concern may be an aid to healing patients.

Key words: medical humanities, literature, psychoanalysis, Tender Is the Night, humanistic concern, fight against the epidemic