Medical Humanities, Oxford
Description
Medical humanities examines the relationship between health and society, situating medicine and disease within their political, social, historical, ethical, and cultural contexts.
It often uses ideas, tools and methods from disciplines such as history, art, philosophy, theology, and literature to create innovative strategies for understanding and improving health and healthcare. Decisions about whom to treat or when to treat them, how to prevent disease, and how to fund and develop health services cannot be made on the basis of science alone. They remain contentious ethical and political judgments, reflecting economic realities, contested histories, cultural norms, future aspirations, and socially-conditioned perceptions of risk. Medical humanities brings these judgments to light and enables people to examine them consciously. Most fundamentally, medical humanities understands health and medicine as bound up with the human.
Offers funding
No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.
Contact details
The Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX2 6GG
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The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
TORCH, part of the Humanities Division at the University of Oxford, is a hub for intellectual collaboration and cross-disciplinary research projects. The Centre’s funding, trainin… read more about The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
University Of Oxford
The Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG
United Kingdom
University affiliation(s)
University of Oxford
Oxford
University of Oxford
Oxford
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2024-06-10 16:23:34