Literature and Medicine is concerned with the ways medicine and medical matters have been represented in literary texts. Its intention is to enrich each participant's understanding of medical events by exploring the narrative and symbolic dimensions of illness from as many perspectives as possible.
Fourth-year elective only.
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.
History
Subject Area
Medicine
Geographic Region
West South Central
University or College
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Funding Status
Public
Endowment (according to NACUBO's U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2020 Endowment Market Value and Change* in Endowment Market Value from FY19 to FY20) ($1,000)
1209277
Annual Tuition and Mandatory Fees 2021-2022 ($) (Resident; Non-resident, where applicable)
36295; 68465
Course Title
Literature and Medicine
Terminal Degree of Instructor(s)
PhD Medical Humanities
Position of Instructor(s)
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Medical Humanities
Academic Year(s) Active
2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22; course may be longer running, but archives unavailable.