Medical Education, Politics and Social Justice

This book critically analyses how politics and power affect the ways that medicine is taught and learned.

Alan Bleakley 0000-0001-5206-7010 is Life Emeritus Professor of Medical Education and Medical Humanities at Plymouth Peninsula School of Medicine, Faculty of Health. He is an internationally acclaimed figure in the fields of medical education and medical humanities, with a strong profile of research grants, keynote conference talks, peer-reviewed publications, book chapters and books. He has an academic background in zoology, psychology, psychoanalytic psychotherapy and education, and has been instrumental in developing the medical humanities in medical education internationally including organizing international conferences. He is past President of the Association for Medical Humanities and founding Fellow of the Academy of Medical Educators. Alan is also a widely published poet with four collections, and a keen, longstanding surfer. He lives in the far west of Cornwall - where granite coast meets the, often wild, Atlantic - with his wife Sue who is a visual artist.

Part I-Contradiction as resource 1.Politics 2.Aesthetics 3.Common Wealth 4.Climate Emergency 5.Political Emergency 6.An Uncomfortable Intimacy 7.Resistance Part I 8.Resistance Part II-Democracy, 'teams' and common wealth 9.Resistance Part III Part II-The Contradiction Cure 10.Contradictions Cure 11.Thinking With Curriculum 12.Curriculum Reconceived 13.Democratic Gestures 14.Effective Collaboration