About

The medical/health humanities aims to bridge gaps that exist between health, disease, healing, and the patient population through envisioning medicine and healthcare via the lenses of literature, history, philosophy, and other humanities and social science disciplines.

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Our focus is on the "qualitative humanistic and socio-cultural context of health care in contrast to the clinical/objective approach traditionally taken in biomedicine"

(IU Indianapolis School of Liberal Arts MHHS).

 

Medical/health humanities encourages us to engage in uncomfortable conversations that reveal truths about how medicine is practiced and received.

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The Indiana University Indianapolis Medical Humanities and Health Studies Program hosts the Annual Midwest Medical Humanities Student Conference in the Spring semester.

 

The 5th Annual Midwest Medical Humanities Student Conference,

"Moral Imagination"

will focus on discussing medicine, health, disease, healing, and patient care through an interdisciplinary approach in research, art, poetry, music, and other interactive activities.​

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More information on the theme of this year's conference​​

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