Jane Macnaughton
Research Associate
Department of Anthropology
Durham University
United Kingdom
Biography
Jane Macnaughton is Professor of Medical Humanities at Durham University and co-director of the University’s Centre for Medical Humanities (CMH). She was appointed Dean of Undergraduate Medicine in 2014 with strategic oversight of Durham’s Phase I Medicine Programme. CMH was established in 2008 as a Wellcome Trust-Funded development from the Centre for Arts and Humanities in Health and Medicine (CAHHM) which she initiated in 2000. Before that Jane was a GP in Glasgow and a lecturer in the Department of General Practice at Glasgow University. Jane set up and now contributes to the personal and professional development strand of Durham’s Phase I Medical Programme.
Research Interest
Jane has interests in the fields of medical education, medical humanities, literature and medicine, history of medicine and health care environments. Recently her work has focussed on somatic symptoms, especially the problem of chronic breathlessness, which is the subject of her Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award in Medical Humanities (2015) held jointly with Professor Havi Carel at Bristol.
Publications
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Wainwright, M & Macnaughton, J (2013). Is a qualitative perspective missing from COPD guidelines?. The Lancet Respiratory Medicine 1(6): 441-442.
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Macnaughton, Jane (2017). The past, present, and future of medical humanities. postmedieval: A journal of medieval cultural studies 8(2): 234-239.
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Rose, Arthur, Duschinsky, Robbie & Macnaughton, Jane (2017). Cynicism as a strategic virtue. The Lancet 389(10070): 692-693.
