CHCI Medical Humanities Network
Research Projects
All Research
- Community Commons
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Focus Project: Covid-19 Response
- Care for the Polis (Columbia University)
- Community Sabbatical Research Leave Program (University of Texas Humanities Institute)
- Graphic Medicine in the Time of COVID-19 (Creighton University)
- Narrative Medicine Blog (Columbia University)
- Plagues, Epidemics, and Culture: Histories of Crisis and Care (Arizona State University)
- Poetry in the Time of Coronavirus (University of Texas Humanities Institute)
- Project COPE: Chronicling Healthcare Providers' Pandemic Experiences (University of South Caroline School of Medicine Greenville)
- South Carolina Pandemic Healthcare Ethics Advisory Council (South Carolina Hospital and Medical Associations)
- Synapsis Covid-19 Special Issue (Columbia University)
- Synapsis Special Issue: Justice-in-Education and Covid-19 (Columbia University)
- Translational Humanities for Public Health (Rice University)
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Symposia and Lecture Series
- Black Lives in the Era of Covid-19 (Columbia University Institute for Research in African-American Studies)
- Chronic Conditions: Knowing, Seeing & Healing the Body in Global Africa (University of Kansas)
- Death and Dying in the Medieval World (University of Tennessee)
- Explorations in the Medical Humanities (Columbia University)
- Medical Humanities Seminar (University of California, Merced)
- Mellon-Sawyer "Suffer Well" Lecture Series (University of California, Irvine)
- Narrative Medicine Lunch and Learn (2018-2019) (Wake Forest University)
- Narrative Medicine: The Story, Health, and Healing Initiative (Wake Forest University)
- Producing a Worthy Illness: Personal Crowdfunding Amidst Financial Crisis (University of Washington)
- Stanford Seminar with Allan Brandt (University of Miami)
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Focus Project: Aging
- Age and the Body (University of the Witwatersrand, Wiser)
- Aging and its Tropes (Columbia University)
- Border Crossing, Piloting, Aging (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
- Culture and the Reproduction of Myths About Aging (King's College London)
- Falls Narrative Study (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
- Medical Humanities: Diverse Inquiries (Dartmouth College)
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Research Collaborations
- Creative Health Collaborations (Arizona State University)
- Critical Medical Humanities: Perspectives on the Intersection of Race and Medicine (Colby College)
- Evolution of Child Health Interventions in Tanzania (University of Dar es Salaam)
- Health Humanities Initiative (Arizona State University)
- Health Humanities Laboratory (Texas A&M University)
- Health and Medical Humanities Initiatives at the University of Texas-Austin (University of Texas at Austin)
- Living Assessments (University of Kent)
- Medicine, Race, Democracy Lab (Rice University)
- Synapsis: A Journal of Health Humanities (Columbia University)
- The Past, Present and Future of US Global Health Partnerships in Africa (University of Washington)
- The Transformative Potential of Disaster: Ethics of Care in Puerto Rico after Maria (Kalamazoo College)
- Transitions: Living and Dying Well (University of Tennessee)
- colLAB: Bridging East Africa's Digital Health Divides (University of Kansas)
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Curriculum Development
- Cross-Disciplinary Minor in Disability Studies (James Madison University)
- Cross-Disciplinary Minor in Medical Humanities (James Madison University)
- Directory of Health Humanities Graduate Programs (University of Texas Humanities Institute)
- Health Humanities Laboratory (Texas A&M University)
- Health Humanities Undergraduate Pathway Program (B.S.) (D'Youville University)
- Health, Humanities, and Society Minor (Northeastern University)
- Health, Languages, & Humanities in the World Certificate (University of Kansas)
- Humanities in Medicine (HuMed) (University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine)
- Medical Humanities Committee (University of Miami)
- Medical Humanities Field School (University of Dar es Salaam)
- Medical Humanities Minor (Miami University)
- Medicine, Literature and Society Major Track (Columbia University)
- Medicine, Meditation, Narration (University of Bordeaux, College of Health Sciences)
- Religious Studies for Health Professionals (University of Arizona)
- Summer in Italy: Medicine and Science through Art and Literature (Arizona State University)
- Undergraduate Certificate (Arizona State University)
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Summer Institutes
- CHCI Medical Humanities Institute: Space, Place and Design (University of Southern Denmark) (University of Southern Denmark)
- CHCI Medical Humanities Institute: Health Beyond Borders (Columbia Global Centers | Paris) (Columbia Global Centers | Paris)
- CHCI Medical Humanities Institute: Neurodiversities (Duke University) (Duke University)
- CHCI Medical Humanities Institute: Global Health (University of Miami) (University of Miami)
- CHCI Medical Humanities Institute (University College London) (King's College London)
- CHCI Medical Humanities Institute (Dartmouth) (Dartmouth College)
Curriculum Development
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Cross-Disciplinary Minor in Disability Studies
James Madison University
Goal: To engage students in an examination of the many ways disability is defined and constructed.
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Cross-Disciplinary Minor in Medical Humanities
James Madison University
Goal: To provide students with a humanistic and social study of illness, health and the body, by examining how individuals and institutions articulate and disseminate conceptions of the body, including constituent issues such as race, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender.
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Directory of Health Humanities Graduate Programs
University of Texas Humanities Institute
Goal: To provide a comprehensive directory of programs in the United States that offer post-baccalaureate degrees (masters or doctoral) or graduate certificates in the Health/Medical Humanities, including Bioethics.
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Health Humanities Laboratory
Texas A&M University
Goal: The Health Humanities Laboratory examines emerging debates in the cross-disciplinary field of Health Humanities.
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Health Humanities Undergraduate Pathway Program (B.S.)
D'Youville University
Goal: To describe the launch of an undergraduate degree program in Health Humanities in 2020.
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Health, Humanities, and Society Minor
Northeastern University
Goal: To teach students to think capaciously and creatively about health using the rigorous, precise, and flexible skills and competencies trained by the social sciences and the humanities.
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Health, Languages, & Humanities in the World Certificate
University of Kansas
Goal: To provide students the knowledge and skill to innovate in the multidisciplinary fields of global health and medicine.
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Humanities in Medicine (HuMed)
University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine
Goal: The development of a humanities curricular track.
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Medical Humanities Committee
University of Miami
Goal: Explore ways to more intentionally incorporate the humanities into medical students’ coursework and co-curricular experiences.
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Medical Humanities Field School
University of Dar es Salaam
Goal: To develop a collaborative field school for University of Dar es Salaam and University of Kansas students.
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Medical Humanities Minor
Miami University
Goal: To establish an undergraduate minor in medical humanities.
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Medicine, Literature and Society Major Track
Columbia University
Goal: To explore the biological, social, economic and cultural dimensions of health and medicine in a global and multilingual framework.
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Medicine, Meditation, Narration
University of Bordeaux, College of Health Sciences
Goal: A new course, “Medicine, meditation, narration” has just been addressed in Bordeaux University to the fourth-year medical students to give them a chance to discover practices that can improve their abilities of attention, of listening and their empathy: they have been taught principles and practices of the mindfulness-based stress reduction program, and narrative practices.
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Religious Studies for Health Professionals
University of Arizona
Goal: To teach future health professionals how diverse religious commitments impact experiences and understandings of health, healthcare, and the healing process.
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Summer in Italy: Medicine and Science through Art and Literature
Arizona State University
Goal: Summer abroad program taught by faculty in Health Sciences and English.
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Undergraduate Certificate
Arizona State University
Goal: Undergraduate Certificate in Interdisciplinary Health Humanities, housed in Department of English.