Topics in Health and the Humanities

ILS 325 introduces Health Humanities, exploring medicine and healthcare through literature, history, and philosophy.

offering recorded3–4 credits
Recorded instructors · Fall 2026 Julia Horn3.7/5

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ILS 325

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Fall 2026

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LEC 001Classroom Instruction29 / 300

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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

  • Medicine and healthcare through diverse lenses
  • Perspectives of patients, practitioners, and institutions
  • Everyday experience, human dignity, and structural inequalities

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  • Critical reflection on health and humanities issues
  • Reflection on interdisciplinary methods in health humanities

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ILS 325 · Fall 2026

Topics in Health and the Humanities

Recorded 2026-09-07
ILS 325 · Fall 2026

Medical Ethics: Ancient/Modern

Recorded 2026-09-07
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