Health Humanities Syllabus Repository

Medical Humanities and Arts

The interdisciplinary field of health humanities: the use of the arts and humanities to examine medicine in personal, social, and cultural contexts. Topics include the doctor/patient relationship, the patient perspective, the meaning of doctoring, and the meaning of illness. Sources include visual and performing arts, film, and literary genres such as poetry, fiction, and scholarly writing. Designed for medical students in the Biomedical Ethics and Medical Humanities Scholarly Concentration, but all students are welcome.

Pre-doctoral health professions (MD, DO, RN, etc.)

Audrey Shafer

Body/Embodiment

Death and Dying/End-of-Life/Hospice

Disease/Illness

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Graphic Medicine

Literature/Poetry/Creative Writing

Visual arts/Film

African & African-American Studies

Film & Media Studies

Literature/Literary Studies

Women/Gender Studies

Stanford, CA

online synchronous

Stanford University

Medical Humanities and Arts