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Published on: February 16, 2011
Medical humanities and cultural studies: lessons learned from an NEH Institute
Susan M Squier1, Anne Hunsaker Hawkins
1Brill Professor of Women's Studies and English, Penn State University, USA. Sxs62.@psu.edu
Abstract:
In this essay, the directors of an NEH Institute on "Medicine, Literature, and Culture" consider the lessons they learned by bringing humanities scholars to a teaching hospital for a month-long institute that mingled seminar discussions, outside speakers and clinical observations. In an exchange of letters, they discuss the productive tensions inherent in approaching medicine from multiple perspectives, and they argue the case for a broader conception of medical humanities that incorporates the methodologies of cultural studies.
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