Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities,
has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing …

Since the emergence of the field in the 1970s, several trends have begun to challenge the
original assumptions, claims, and practices of what became known as the medical …

This textbook brings the humanities to students in order to evoke the humanity of students. It
helps to form individuals who take charge of their own minds, who are free from narrow and …

Research Methods in Health Humanities surveys the diverse and unique research methods
used by scholars in the growing, transdisciplinary field of health humanities. Appropriate for …

In the last decade, the humanities have been shrinking in number of students, percent of
faculty, and in number of degrees awarded. Humanities students also earn lower salaries …

The purpose of medical humanities is to improve the delivery of effective health care through
a better understanding of disease in society, and in the individual. The interfaces between …

Medical Humanities the journal started life in 2000 as a special edition of the JME. However,
the intellectual taproots of the medical humanities as a field of enquiry can be traced to two …

Several years ago, after Rafael Campo–writer, physician, teacher–returned from a
conference on the medical humanities in London, he published a commentary in the Journal …

The medical humanities are at a critical juncture. On the one hand, practitioners of this field
can bask in their recent successes: in the UK, at least, what was once a loose set of …

Through a comparison of two graphic novels concerned with the experience of cancer
diagnosis and treatment, Brian Fies's Mom's Cancer (2006) and Harvey Pekar and Joyce …