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In the final lecture of the 2012/2013 series of lectures provided by the Glasgow Centre for Population Health (GCPH), Professor Jane MacNaughton, Medical Humanities, University of Durham, discusses the links between Medical Humanities and the idea of the Fifth Wave in Public Health. Professor MacNaughton talks about the common origins of these two areas of thinking, the parallels and commonalities in Medical Humanities and new ideas in Public Health, and then identifies the challenges, the advantages of applying both areas in practice. She talks about the differences between the medical perspective of illness and that of the patient’s perspective - their experience, the effect illness has on their ability to do things, to relate to others, to live their life as they previously did and how Medical Humanities reintroduces the human scale record into the education of medical students and doctors through the use of literature, art and philosophy to exemplify how illness is experienced and lived.