MCPHS HUM.230 Intro to Health Humanities

This course is an introduction to the interdisciplinary approaches and methods associated with health humanities. Students review literature defining the scope and interests of this discipline; study illness, health and healthcare through the perspectives of literature, film, essay/memoir, history, and social science; and think critically about health and illness as these phenomena are discursively constructed in professional and popular culture.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

Cross-registration through the Colleges of the Fenway (COF) required.

Notes

This course is taught at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (MCPHS).