Minor in Medical and Health Humanities
SHSU’s Medical & Health Humanities Program promotes interdisciplinary investigations into the multifaceted relationships between health and society, explores the ethical and narrative dimensions of healthcare, and produces citizens and future medical practitioners prepared to grapple with the complexities of modern healthcare.
The medical humanities are an interdisciplinary field that combines perspectives from the humanities, social sciences, arts, natural sciences, and medicine to understand the social and cultural aspects of health.
This program:
- Supports student work on the social and cultural aspects of health.
- Enhances student skills in ethics, communication, and critical thinking.
- Creates well-rounded practitioners of the future through introspection about life, illness, recovery, human suffering, the care of the body and spirit, and death.
- Promotes humanistic and social science skills through explorations of the entanglements of human experience, health, medicine, and society.
A Different Viewpoint Of The Medical And Health Sectors
Students studying the medical humanities will not simply look at what doctors do, but also at how patients, public health officials, advocates, policy makers, social workers, and everyday people define and challenge definitions of health, illness, and disability.
Students in the Medical & Health Humanities Minor program can look forward to:
- Great classes to explore the various methods and approaches to studying health and medicine.
- Gaining a better understanding of medical & health issues from a humanities viewpoint.
- Prizes for projects related to the medical & health humanities.
- An internship list to help find opportunities for experiential learning.
Get More Information
To enroll in this program, contact the SAM Center for Academic Advisement.
For more information, contact Dr. Scottie Buehler: scottiecpm@shsu.edu.
This program is funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities