Faculty and Staff Publications

Publication Date

7-1-2025

Journal

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics

DOI

10.1017/S0963180124000318

PMID

39397764

Abstract

This paper describes the content and evolution of a fourth-year course for medical students on teaching pathographies of mental illness. (It is a follow-up to Nathan Carlin's Pathographies of Mental Illness that appeared as an Element in the Bioethics and Neuroethics series published by Cambridge University Press.) The course originally centered on classic (and some contemporary) memoirs; however, responding to student evaluations, newer material now ensures more diversity, with material written by women and people of color, and describes the difference that can make.

Keywords

Humans, Mental Disorders, Curriculum, Teaching, Education, Medical, Undergraduate, Bioethics, Students, Medical, Psychiatry, diversity, education, memoir, mental illness, pathography, psychiatry

Published Open-Access

yes

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