Resources
Courses of Interest
- EAS 306 – Sexuality, Public Culture & Medicine in East Asia (SA)
- EAS 312 – Mind, Body and Bioethics in Japan and Beyond (EM)
- HIS 393 – Race, Drugs and Drug Policy in America (HA)
- HIS 394 – The Rise of Modern Biomedicine (HA)
- HIS 395 – History of Medicine and the Body (HA)
- PHI 344 / CHV 333 – Bioethics (EM)
- PHI 385 / CHV 310 – Practical Ethics (EM)
- REL 242 – Jewish Thought and Modern Society (EM)
- REL 261 – Christian Ethics and Modern Society (EM)
- REL 382 – Death and the Afterlife in Buddhist Cultures (HA)
- SLA 368 – Literature and Medicine (EM)
- SPA 205 – Medical Spanish
Sample health-related humanities theses
- People, Not Patients: An Analytical Critique of the Medical Approach to Racial Disparities in Premature Birth and Birthweight in the United States (AAS)
- From Cholera to COVID-19: A Framework for Analyzing the Visual Media of Communicable Disease Outbreaks (ART)
- Death and Dying in Ancient Greek Medicine (CLA)
- Morally Bankrupt: CarePoint & Community Health in Hudson County (ENG)
- Writing an Epidemic; Fighting an Epidemic: The Memoirs of People with AIDS in the 1980s and 1990s (ENG)
- “Eternal Father, Strong to Save”: The US Navy Medical Department in the Korean Conflict, 1950-1953 (HIS)
- "Revolution of Falling Expectations": Bertram Brown and the Political Psychiatry of Community Mental Health (1963-1978) (HIS)
- Rural Health Care in Central Iran: A Study from the Patients’ and the Government’s Perspectives (NES)
- Is Commercial Surrogacy Morally Problematic? (PHI)
- A Study of Gendered-Communication in the Doctor-Patient Consultation Room (PHI)
- Conflicts in Medical Ethics: Reconciling Respect for Autonomy and Patient Well-Being in Clinical Practice (PHI)
- When Bodies Break: An Exploration of Christian Responses to Leprosy and AIDS (REL)
- Midwives and Medicalization: Reading Childbirth In Russian Literature (SLA)
- The Spanish Health Care System and Treatment of Immigrants (SPO)