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Bookmark or Share- Medical Humanities | Rice UniversityStudents in the medical humanities program at Rice study the social, cultural, ethical, and historical dimensions of how doctors, patients, and communities understand the lived experience of health and disease.
- Homepage | Medical HumanitiesMedical Humanities is led by Dr Brandy Schillace, the journal publishes scholarly and critical articles on a broad range of topics. These include history of medicine, cultures of medicine, disability studies, gender and the body, communities in crisis, bioethics, and public health.
- The Long History of the Medical HumanitiesIn our new ‘MedHums 101’ series exploring the key concepts, debates and historical points of the medical humanities, Kate Errington gives a general history of the subject: it’s been around longer than you might think. When I use the term ‘medical humanities’ I’m often met with blank stares.
- Medical humanities - WikipediaMedical humanities uses interdisciplinary research to explore experiences of health and illness, often focusing on subjective, hidden, or invisible experience. This interdisciplinary strength has given the field a noted diversity and encouraged creative 'epistemological innovation'.
- What are the Medical Humanities? | Definition, Examples ... - PerlegoDrawing upon literature, history, the arts, anthropology, philosophy, and more, the medical humanities investigate how disease, healing, and medicine influence culture, and how the humanities can inform medical care and education. Alan Bleakley identifies “four contested and fragmented” areas of focus in the medical humanities:
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