Selected Topics Med Humanities

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This class offers an in-depth examination of one of the major areas within the medical humanities field. Topics will vary and reflect the changes and advances of the field. Using the humanities to investigate the human experiences of illness, health, disability, and death, students will examine these ideas in further depth with a focus on literature and the arts, history and culture, spirituality and religion or philosophy and ethics. This further examination allows students to achieve a nuanced and meaningful understanding of the larger contexts that have shaped our approaches to medicine, health, and illness.