Please ensure that your application for a place in Medical Humanities in 2008 is correctly completed and make sure that you also apply for credit for your non-award studies.

My Uni
The University of Sydney online student self-administration and information resource. You can use this website to manage your enrolment, access your University email account, log on to USYD eLearning for online units of study and access the Services for Students website.

UniKey
Each student enrolled at the University of Sydney is given a UniKey account code and log-in password on their confirmation of enrolment letter. The UniKey website has links to Express Account Tools, which means that you can pay student fees, library fines, buy notes, download software,

The back page of your Enrolment Form contains information about your Unikey login, password and University email address.

You can access University information and the service centre, MyUni, to Student Support Services and to the University Library. The Library has a Medical Humanities Subject Guide

If you have not written essays in the humanities for some time, a useful resource is the Short Guide to the Writing and Presentation of Papers and Essays, 2000, prepared by the History Department (Fisher Special Reserve Call #808.06695C). The Library has an online Citation and Style Guide and you can ask a librarian for help online, by email or in person.

Essays should be accompanied by a statement of compliance with the University's policy on plagiarism.

Also, please consider joining the Association for Medical Humanities to stay in touch with people with similar interests.

A small selection of the available resources:

Medical Humanities Journal, BMJ Press. Available via Fisher Library Electronic Resources

Downie R, ed. The Healing Arts. An Oxford Illustrated Anthology. Oxford University Press, 2000. (Medical Library 808.80356 5)

Evans M & Finlay IG, eds. Medical Humanities. London BMJ Books, 2001.

Kirklin D & Richardson R, eds. Medical Humanities: a practical introduction. London: Royal College of Physicians, 2000.

Porter R. Blood and Guts: a Short History of Medicine. Penguin, 2002.

Sontag S. Illness as a Metaphor. Farrar, Strauss and Giroux. NY, 1977. (Fisher Research 809.9335 8)

Scott PA. The relationship between the arts and medicine. Journal of Medical Ethics, 2000;26:3-8

Greaves D, Medical progress, reason and the imagination. Journal of Medical Ethics, 2001;27:57

Evans HM. Is medicine a “cultural good”? Medical Journal of Australia 2005; 182: 3-4

Gordon J. Medical humanities: to cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always. Medical Journal of Australia 2005; 182: 5-8

Barker P. Working with the metaphor of life and death. Journal of Medical Ethics, 2000;26:97-102

Annas GJ. Reframing the debate on health care reform by replacing our metaphors. The New England Journal of Medicine, 332:745-748, 1995

Staricoff RL. Arts in health: a review of the medical literature. Arts Council England. Research Report 36 (executive summary and bibliography). Full report at www.artscouncil.org.uk