Spring 2027

Topics in Health and the Humanities

Topics in Health and the Humanities introduces key concepts and debates in the field, exploring medicine through literature, history, cultural studies, and philosophy.

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What you’ll be able to do

  • Reflect on different methods and fields of study (including literature, history, and religion) used in Health Humanities to explore questions and problems about illness and wellbeing.

  • Explore cross-cultural medical traditions and histories of healing and views about health and illness.

  • Consider the multi-sided impacts and experiences of illness on people's everyday lives, including and beyond the physio-biological, such as the social, legal, and emotional impacts, and examine ways that different medical traditions offer practices and communities of care and healing to address them.

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ILS 325

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Student experience

the class

Introduces key concepts, methods, and debates in the interdisciplinary field of Health Humanities. Explores medicine and healthcare through diverse lenses (including literature, history, cultural studies, and philosophy), and examines the perspectives of patients, practitioners, institutions, and cultural communities. Encourages critical reflection on issues like everyday experience, the good life, human dignity, and structural inequalities at the intersection of health and the humanities. Reflect on different methods and fields of study (such as literature, history, and religion) used in Health Humanities to explore questions and problems about illness and wellbeing.

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Topics

  • Perspectives of patients, practitioners, institutions, and cultural communities in healthcare.
  • Critical reflection on everyday experience, human dignity, and structural inequalities at the intersection of health and humanities.
  • Cross-cultural medical traditions and histories of healing.

Skills

  • Reflecting on interdisciplinary methods from literature, history, and religion to explore illness and wellbeing.
  • Exploring medicine and healthcare through lenses including literature, history, cultural studies, and philosophy.

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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