Medical Humanities at Harvard

Medical Humanities at Harvard Medical School:

• Training the Eye: Teaching the Art of Physical Diagnosis, HMS
• Anatomy Course reflective exercise
• Scholars in Medicine program Medical Humanities Track, HMS
• Katherine Swan Ginsburg Humanism in Medicine Program, BIDMC 
• Literature & Medicine: Humanities at the Heart of Health Care, MGH
• Humanism Curriculum for Internal Medicine Interns, BWH
• Teamwork Training in Internal Medicine at the Museum of Fine Arts, BWH

Medical Humanities Courses at Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences:

• Culture and Belief 58. Case Studies in the Medical Humanities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Experience of Illness and Healing
• Literature 128. Literature and Medicine
• Greek 109. The Literature of Affliction
• African and African American Studies 189x. Medicine, Culture, and Society
• Freshman Seminar 23k. Insights from Narratives of Illness
• Classical Studies 165. Medicine in the Greco-Roman World
• East Asian Studies 170. Medicine and the Body in East Asia and in Europe
• East Asian Studies 205. Approaches to the Comparative History of Medicine and the Body
• Freshman Seminar 26f. Dreams: Our Mind by Night
• Freshman Seminar 37t. Disability History, Disability Literature
• History of Science 112. Magic, Medicine and Miracles: Health and Healing in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
• Ethical Reasoning 33: Medical Ethics and History
• Expository Writing 20.002: Human Death and Disease, Cultural Agents of Change
• History of Science 108: Bodies, Sexualities, and Medicine in the Medieval Middle East
• Societies of the World 25: Case Studies in Global Health: Biosocial Perspectives
• Harvard Divinity School 3256: The Shock of the New
• Culture and Belief 58: Case Studies in the Medical Humanities
• Sociology 190: Life and Death in the US: Medicine and Disease in Social Context

For a complete listing and course descriptions, click here.

Museums and Libraries at Harvard

• Paul S. Russell Museum of History and Innovation at Massachusetts General Hospital
• Harvard Art Museums
• Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University
• Countway Medical Library

Local Partners

• American Reperatory Theatre
• Museum of Fine Arts
• Longwood Symphony Orchestra
  

Related groups at Harvard

• Harvard CollegeMedical Humanities Forum
• The Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University
• Harvard College Wintersession: Arts, Creativity and Medicine
• Third Space Journal

For suggestions of additions to this list, please contact us.