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Medical Humanities
What is Medical
Humanities?
Medical humanities is the result of combining medicine with
the arts – a way of gaining insight and understanding
into the “human” aspects of medicine. How can
we understand suffering? What does it mean to be human? How
has our view of health changed now compared to two hundred
years ago?
Medicine is truly interdisciplinary
including:
Humanities
- Literature
- Philosophy
- Ethics
- History
- Religion
Social Science
- Anthropology
- Cultural Studies
- Psychology
- Sociology
The Arts
- Literature
- Theatre
- Film
- Visual Arts
The study of medical humanities is relatively new in the UK.
However, it is already a well- established part of medical education
in the USA. This website is intended as a resource for anyone
interested in using the arts to look at medicine in new and
exciting ways.
Medical education at Liverpool already includes ethics,
psychology and history of medicine. There are new societies
such as the:-
If you are interested in how art and medicine fit together
in medical education, clinical practice and life in general,
I hope this webpage will be a useful resource. Perhaps you
will think about medicine differently and see the world a
different way.
Please explore this section and it as a forum to share your
thoughts and keep updated and what’s happening in Liverpool.
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