What is Medical Humanities?
Medical Humanities is an interdisciplinary, humanistic and cultural study of illness, health, health care, and the body. This approach to illness and health allows for a discussion of the whole person, drawing themes from social justice and ethics.
The Medical Humanities Journal of Boston College is a subset of the Boston College Medical Humanities minor, which allows students to choose from a wide range of areas of interest spanning many different departments to discuss health and disease. Although much of the writing from these minor courses will fit directly into our submission categories, we encourage submissions from any and all fields of discipline.
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For additional information about the Medical Humanities minor as well as the associated resources, faculty, and programs here at Boston College please click below.
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Rita Charon is a general internist and literary scholar at Columbia University in New York. She received her MD from Harvard in 1978 and her Ph.D. in English from Columbia in 1999. She originated the field of narrative medicine in 2000 and has been directing the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia since. She writes and lectures extensively on the role of narrative skills in caring for the sick. She is the author of Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness and co-author of the Fort.
Rita Charon MD, PhD
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