Health and Medical Humanities Initiative
As a set of disciplines, the humanities face the challenge of how to write about embodied experiences that resist easy verbal categorization such as illness, pain, and healing. The recent emergence of interdisciplinary frameworks such as narrative medicine has offered a set of methodological approaches to address these challenges.
Conceptualizing a field of medical and health humanities offers a broad umbrella under which to study the influence of medico-scientific ideas and practices on society. At stake are the problems of representation and the interpretation of cultural products from the past and present through medical models, and the challenge of establishing a set of humanistic competencies (observation, attention, judgment, narrative, historical perspective, ethics, creativity) that can inform medical practice.
The Health and Medical Humanities Initiative provides an ongoing forum at SOF/Heyman to explore these challenges and to continue to discover new methodological approaches.
- I See My Light Shining: Oral Histories of Our Elders Columbia
- Health and Medical Humanities Initiative Columbia
- Zip Code Memory Project Columbia
- East 40 Gardens & Nature Area Lehigh University
- Finding H.D. Lehigh University
- Southsider: Celebrating Bethlehem’s Southside Culture Lehigh University
- Black Bethlehem Project Lehigh University
- Lehigh Valley LGBT Community Archive Lehigh University
- The Story Box: Franz Boas, George Hunt and the Making of Anthropology Bard Graduate Center
- Endurance Streets (堅韌的街道): Resilience and Response in Boston’s Chinese Community Tufts
- Bard Graduate Center Craft, Art and Design Oral History Project Bard Graduate Center
- Voices in Studio Glass History Bard Graduate Center
- Staging the Table in Europe 1500–1800 Bard Graduate Center
- Shaped by the Loom: Weaving Worlds in the American Southwest Bard Graduate Center
- Public Humanities Collaborative Cheryl Nixon University of Massachusetts Boston
- Democracy in America: The History of Our Time and Place Matthew Jacobson Yale
- In Their Presence: Debates on the Dignity, Display, and Ownership of Human Remains Tufts
- These Words: A Century of Printing, Writing, and Reading in Boston’s Chinese Community 這些文字：波士頓華人社區一個世紀的印刷、寫作和閱讀 Tufts
- CUNY Humanities Alliance Katina Rogers CUNY
- The University Worth Fighting For Katina Rogers CUNY
- Team-taught graduate courses focusing on equity and pedagogy across the curriculum Katina Rogers CUNY
- Undergraduate Leadership Fellows program Katina Rogers CUNY
- The Historian’s Eye Matthew Jacobson Yale
- Photogrammar Laura Wexler Yale
- Providence Chinatown Brown Public Humanities
- Hacking Heritage Brown Public Humanities
- Rhode Tour Brown Public Humanities
- John Ashbery’s Nest Karin Roffman Yale