Health Humanities as Craft, Northeast Ohio Medical University

This 3-credit course will expose you to the health humanities as an interdisciplinary field of scholarship and practice through different methodological approaches that are used in such disciplines as history, medical anthropology, literary studies, and philosophy. Students will first be guided through the basics of scholarly writing and research, and then will engage with those methodologies widely used in the health humanities, including ethnography, archival research, close reading of diverse texts, literary analysis, and philosophical argumentation. This required, foundational course will prepare students for health humanities and bioethics coursework and scholarship This course can contribute to the achievment of a Graduate Certificate in Medical Ethics and Humanities, a 10-credit program that allows students to combine clinical practice with ethics consultation, education, and research. This information has been collected for the Post-Discipline Online Syllabus Database. The database explores the use of literature by schools of professional education in North America. It forms part of a larger project titled Post-Discipline: Literature, Professionalism, and the Crisis of the Humanities, led by Dr Merve Emre with the assistance of Dr Hayley G. Toth. You can find more information about the project at https://postdiscipline.english.ox.ac.uk/. Data was collected and accurate in 2021/22.