Olga Kerameos ’27, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a Social Studies concentrator in Mather House. Could the medical humanities finally fix your doctors’ notoriously bad handwriting? Probably not, but ...
A new study analyzing dozens of published papers over five decades focusing on health care disparities in Washington, DC, found that those that employed medical humanities approaches identified ...
Shocking though it might sound to some physicians, there are those who believe that a few members of the profession have the clinical empathy of a cadaver and aren’t adequately trained in the ...
A new study analyzing dozens of published papers over five decades focusing on health care disparities in Washington, DC, found that those that employed medical humanities approaches identified ...
Two Georgetown University professors discussed their writings on disability studies at an Oct. 23 event. Reynolds emphasized the value of disability studies in bettering the lives of individuals and ...
The rise of this new discipline signals a willingness to be more inclusive and cross-disciplinary and take a traditional subject in unusual new directions Introducing a new discipline into academia is ...
Biological sciences, chemistry and human physiology are all common majors for students who plan to one day apply to medical school. English, astronomy and communications? Not nearly as common — but ...
University of Toronto's Andrea Charise is the lead developer of Canada’s first undergraduate program in health humanities, which looks at the impact of the humanities and critical social sciences on ...
The Department of Medical Humanities at the University of Colombo’s Medical Faculty is another groundbreaking initiative by the institution as the pioneer of the discipline here at home and in South ...
A young woman in a black suit and heels, with a leather portfolio hanging squarely at her side, stares at the wall across from the admissions office. She’s an applicant for medical school, on campus ...
The horrors of Covid-19 may give proponents of the liberal arts an unexpected opening. By Molly Worthen Dr. Worthen is a historian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who writes ...