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Medical humanities at the University of Wales Swansea
1Centre for Philosophy and Health Care, School of Health Science, University of Wales, Swansea, UK.
Medical Humanities
|December 31, 2005
Abstract:
The UK's first taught master's degree in medical humanities involves a field of inquiry that is frequently philosophical, pursuing interests and questions traditionally arising in medical philosophy and ethics, but on a larger interdisciplinary canvas, drawing upon literature and the visual arts, sociology and anthropology, social history and politics, and theological and religious perspectives.
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