The Medical Humanities theme aims to explore approaches to the relationships between individuals, communities and health.
Medical Humanities
The term medical humanities covers a wide range of perspectives and methodological approaches focused individually and collectively on exploring the socio-political and cultural determinants and consequences of:
- Scientific knowledge,
- clinical practice, and,
- health-care policies.
It also covers the experiences, narratives and representations of health and disease.
Often thought about in terms of humanising medical students and doctors, the medical humanities also possess the potential to offer critical insights into health and disease that are complementary, rather than antagonistic to those provided by the biomedical sciences.
Drawing together colleagues from:
- Classics,
- English,
- History,
- Philosophy,
- Psychology,
- Sociology, and,
- Exeter Medical School.
The aim of this theme is to encourage discussion and debate about how best to generate high-quality, inter-disciplinary research and impact initiatives that can enhance our understanding of health and medicine in the past and the present.
