Research Guides: Medical Humanities: Home

Introduction

This research guide has been created to support work and research in the Medical Humanities program. For specific information about the courses and assignments, please see the specific Canvas course you are enrolled in as a student and the assignment instructions.

If this is a new research area below, see the texts below as a starting point.

Research Starter - Narrative Medicine
Read about narrative medicine, "a concept in medical practice that emphasizes including the patient’s story in treating his or her medical condition."
Patients Are Humans Too : The Emergence of Medical Humanities
"This essay describes the origins, growth, and transformation of the medical humanities over the past six decades, drawing on the insights of ethicists, physicians, historians, patients, activists, writers, and literature scholars who participated in building the field."