MA Medical and Health Humanities
Course Overview
This Masters in Medical and Health Humanities offers a profound exploration of health, illness, and disability as culturally embedded experiences, challenging you to think critically about medical practice and patienthood. You will engage with cutting-edge content from literature, art, and philosophy to understand how health is shaped by identity, history, and policy. The programme equips you with versatile research skills and creative practice opportunities, preparing you for impactful careers across the health and cultural sectors.
Key Program Highlights
- Examine how concepts of health and disability are constructed through the lenses of gender, ethnicity, class, and sexuality.
- Engage in creative, practice-based learning with opportunities to produce life-writing, fiction, or artwork on health themes.
- Explore contemporary health policy developments, including social prescribing and NHS Integrated Care Systems.
- Gain a critical understanding of global health histories and the legacies of colonialism in public health.
- Undertake a final research project or an extended creative piece with a critical commentary.
Course Overview
This Masters in Medical and Health Humanities offers a profound exploration of health, illness, and disability as culturally embedded experiences, challenging you to think critically about medical practice and patienthood. You will engage with cutting-edge content from literature, art, and philosophy to understand how health is shaped by identity, history, and policy. The programme equips you with versatile research skills and creative practice opportunities, preparing you for impactful careers across the health and cultural sectors.
Key Program Highlights
- Examine how concepts of health and disability are constructed through the lenses of gender, ethnicity, class, and sexuality.
- Engage in creative, practice-based learning with opportunities to produce life-writing, fiction, or artwork on health themes.
- Explore contemporary health policy developments, including social prescribing and NHS Integrated Care Systems.
- Gain a critical understanding of global health histories and the legacies of colonialism in public health.
- Undertake a final research project or an extended creative piece with a critical commentary.
