Health Humanities Syllabus Repository

Humanities, Health, and Health Care

Exploring intersections of the humanities with health, illness, and health care has become an exciting area of research both nationally and on the UT campus. Humanities approaches have been shedding new light, for instance, on the role of narrative and other representational forms in the illness experience; on health (and health care) inequities and their causes; on the relationships between health, healing, and culture; and on social constructions of ability and disability. This course surveys such efforts and some of the debates that have arisen around them.

Undergraduate (BA, BS)

Phillip Barrish

Disability/Ableism

Disease/Illness

Diversity

Equity and Inclusion

Empathy/Compassion/Trust

Graphic Medicine

Health Disparities/Access to care

Illness Experience/Patient Narratives

Literature/Poetry/Creative Writing

Narrative medicine

Politics of Health/Public policy

Social determinants of health

Social justice

Structural competency/Structural violence

Anthropology

Disability Studies

English

Health Professions

Literature/Literary Studies

Austin, Texas

hybrid

University of Texas-Austin

Humanities, Health, and Health Care