[4] Panel discussion

[4-1] Implementing the medical humanities and narrative medicine: The case of Kraków, Poland

*Adrianna Beczek^1,2,3, Mateusz Potoniec^1,2, Hubert Syzdek^1,2 (1. Uniwersytet Jagiellonski/Jagiellonian University(Poland), 2. Koło Naukowe Humanistyki Medycznej/ Student's Research Group for Medical Humanities(Poland), 3. Interdyscyplinarne Centrum Etyki UJ/Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics JU(Poland))

Presentation language：English

Pellegrino (1984) claimed that 'medicine (...) sits between the sciences and the humanities being exclusively neither one nor the other but having some of thequalities of both'. We are a group of people who, following this thought, are trying to shift the weight of medical practice slightly more towards humanities in our city of Kraków, Poland. Kraków has a profound history of humanistic medicine, which seems to have been neglected over the recent years. In the proces of reintroducing humanities into medical curriculum we see opportunities to create something new and ameliorate medical care both for patients and for doctors. In the discussion we: Hubert, a student of Medicine and Philosophy, Mateusz, a student of Literature, who have both recently translated the book "The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine" into Polish and Adrianna, who is a researcher in Cultural Anthropology and Philosophy and a student of Medicine, wish to demonstrate our views on the role of Medical Humanities, especially Narrative Medicine, in the clinic, and search for further possibilites this perspective provides.