NSG 803 - Medical Humanities

Most explorations of medicine and culture address certain “truths” or “themes” that are present in medicine. In this course we presume that medicine and/or health are constituted by a set of interrelated narratives that function as etiology and diagnosis– as explanations of what medicine was, is, and should be. The purpose of this course is to examine some of these “themes” and/or “narratives” that are commonplace in medicine and use them as a way of understanding both the human experience within the complex healthcare system, and personal journeys through health, illness, and/or death.

Credits: 3