The Humanities Pandemic: Towards a Front-Line Approach Topping Margaret
The Humanities Pandemic: Towards a Front-Line Approach Topping Margaret This book explores how the Humanities can play an essential services role in addressing global challenges such as the Covid…
Specifikacia The Humanities Pandemic: Towards a Front-Line Approach Topping Margaret
The Humanities Pandemic: Towards a Front-Line Approach Topping Margaret
This book explores how the Humanities can play an essential services role in addressing global challenges such as the Covid pandemic. The book looks at the nature of the challenges that can beset collaboration across disciplines (and indeed across sectors, notably between researchers and the general public) and argues for a new Translational Humanities, in both the sense of an applied Humanities and a Humanities that can translate itself across disciplines and sectors. In arguing for their contribution alongside that of the Health Sciences, it calls for a new critical engagement - honest and self-reflective - from Humanities scholars with the question of how to overcome a fundamental challenge facing universities globally: finding a common language and set of 'cultural' assumptions between disciplines as the basis for communication.
Crucially, too, it suggests that it