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Health Humanities

Applying the knowledge and methodologies of the humanities, social sciences, and arts to the practice of medicine.

Featured work

South Dakota Medicine Humanities Supplement (2024)
South Dakota Medicine presents timely information each month on public health, science, medical economics, medicolegal issues, medical education, legislative affairs and news of the SDSMA.

Empathy 101, by Josh Neufeld (2023)
In this research-based explainer, a comics journalist explores the use of the arts in medical education. Click link above to read in its entirety.

Definitions and Core Readings

Medical Humanities by Thomas R. Cole; Nathan S. Carlin; Ronald A. Carson
ISBN: 9781107015623
Publication Date: 2014-10-31
Critical Readings in the Health and Medical Humanities: Culture and Medicine by Hegele and Goyal, Eds.
ISBN: 9781350248632
Publication Date: 2022
The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine by Rita Charon; Sayantani DasGupta; Nellie Hermann; Craig Irvine; Eric R. Marcus; Edgar Rivera Colsn; Danielle Spencer; Maura Spiegel
ISBN: 9780199360192
Publication Date: 2016-11-04
Routledge Handbook of the Medical Humanities by Bleakley Alan (Editor)
ISBN: 9781351241762
Publication Date: 2019-07-31

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