To emphasize collaborations between the liberal arts, medical education, and clinical care.

This program aims to support inquiry into the medical humanities across disciplines and fields, emphasizing collaborations between the liberal arts, medical education, and clinical care. Issues of subjectivity, perspective-taking, and narrative unite these diverse scholarly inquiries.


Reference shared by Sarah Greene to Medical Humanities: Diverse Inquiries | 1 Nov 2016

I suggest you include this in your group bibliography - really interesting.

Jones, Esther. "Africana Women’s Science Fiction and Narrative Medicine: Difference, Ethics, and Empathy", 2015; Lexington Books


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Final Report


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Project Summary: Medical Subjects

The participants in this group are exploring the question of the medical “subject,” with particular reference to the ways that aging influences how the ‘subject’ is understood and treated. Within the humanities, recent theoretical work (much of which is influenced by the work of Michel Foucault) understands...


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Open Questions: Medical Subjects

How are aging subjects understood by the practices and institutions that are emerging as people live longer and the number of the elderly keeps increasing? What happens to a certain kind of humanistic theory when it is placed in dialogue with those working within the institutions that process subjects on the way toward trying to care for them? How do institutions justify various forms of regulation and coercion in the name of public health (building upon Foucault’s “bio-power”)?


Document (Word) uploaded by Abigail Neely to Medical Humanities: Diverse Inquiries | 14 Jan 2016

Project Summary: Medical Subjects

The participants in this group are exploring the question of the medical “subject,” with particular reference to the ways that aging influences how the ‘subject’ is understood and treated. Within the humanities, recent theoretical work (much of which is influenced by the work of Michel Foucault) understands the subject as embedded within institutional and discursive regimes in ways that vary from culture to culture and from one era to another.  Crucially, these approaches have highlighted the...