Health Humanities

The Health Humanities is the study of the intersection of health and humanistic disciplines (such as philosophy, religion, literature)  fine arts, as well as social science research that gives insight to the human condition (such as history, anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies.)* 

*Obtained from the Health Humanities Consortium and adapted from the National Library of Medicine’s definition for Medical Humanities.(https://healthhumanitiesconsortium.com/hhc-toolkit/definitions/)

Health humanities brings together a variety of disciplines, drawing on the humanities and social sciences, as well as work in the arts, to understand aspects of the human condition related to health and medicine. It encompasses the more specific field of medical humanities, which seeks to utilize humanities knowledge to improve medical research and practice, but just as commonly includes even more capacious approaches to understanding the cultural, ethical, and religious aspects of health across human history. (from: https://sites.bu.edu/healthhumanities/health-humanities/what-is/)