Medical Humanities

Catalog 2015-2016

Medical Humanities

Catalog Year: 2015-2016

Teaching Faculty

Professors Capek and Schmidt
Associate Professors Campolo, Pfau (chair), and Stuber
Assistant Professors Evans and Kennedy

Description

Medical Humanities is an interdisciplinary program that approaches questions of medicine, health, and disease from a variety of fields in the Humanities and the Social Sciences. It focuses on the ways that medicine and the biological sciences function within specific historical, social, and cultural contexts, and the ways that culture impacts the individual experience of illness and the practice of medicine, in the modern United States and in other times and places.

Minor in Medical Humanities

6 courses distributed as follows:

2 courses from the Humanities:
CLAS 255 Medical Etymology
ENGL 249 Literature and/as Illness
PHIL 225 Ethics and Medicine
PHIL 350 Philosophy of Science
RELI 262 Science and Religion
2 courses from the Social Sciences:
ANTH/ASIA 205 Food, Nutrition and Health in Asia
ANTH/ASIA 305 Asian Medical Traditions
HIST 227 Medicine and Disease in Pre-Modern Europe
HIST 339 Epidemics and Society
POLI 100 Topics in Politics: Global HIV/AIDS
PSYC 351 Health Psychology
SOCI 380 Medicine and Culture
2 additional courses from the above lists.

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