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Sasha Chaitow on Building Bridges With and Within Medicine and the Medical Community


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Sasha Chaitow PhD is an interdisciplinary scholar with a doctorate in cultural history, an MA in history, another in Literature and a BA in Communication Studies. She is also a practicing visual artist, teacher and author. As a researcher she has published work tracing the evolution of cultural narratives in the history of ideas, while more recently she has focused more closely on the history and philosophy of medicine. For the past 20 years she has taught language/literary arts and trained faculty in critical thinking for the young adult classroom, and she is an instructor in scientific manuscript development at the University of Patras, Greece. She is author of two books and is Series Editor for the "Leon Chaitow Library" (Elsevier) overseeing revisions of her father's textbooks. She is pursuing post-doctoral research in the medical humanities exploring points of convergence between integrative and biomedical education and practice.

Sasha's website: www.sashachaitow.co.uk

Leon Chaitow's website: www.leonchaitow.com
Relevant articles:

  • The Devil is in the Third Year:a longitudinal study of erosion of empathy in medical school  (mentioned in the discussion)
  • Listen, my Body Electric: Narrative Medicine and the Holistic Revolution in Biomedicine Part 1
  • Intelligent Fascia?
  • Science, Pseudoscience, and the Communication Battle
  • ...more
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