Global Medical and Health Humanities MA

The School of Global Affairs offers four master’s degrees that share a common ethos and course structure. Each provides distinctive yet interconnected opportunities to develop the skills, knowledge, relationships and partnerships needed to meet the global challenges of our time. The medical and health humanities are fast-evolving, interdisciplinary fields that marshal expertise in arts, humanities and social sciences to tackle healthcare challenges and drive positive future change.The key values informing this exciting new field of study are interdisciplinarity, criticality, collaboration, and creativity. Through a range of team-taught modules that draw on the theories, methodologies and practices of humanities subjects, you will explore and address some of the major health and medical issues facing the world today and have the opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge health innovation.These might range from addressing inequalities within health, exploring the need to create inclusive and diverse hospital environments, or engaging with difficult and sensitive issues such as sites of trauma, poverty and environmental crisis in healthcare settings.You will develop critical and cross-cultural approaches to explore such areas as:Narratives and artistic expressions of mental health, illness and painSites of health activism and interventionThe collaborative design of future spaces such as inclusive environments and hospitals fit for purposeThe provision of health advocacyThe de-colonisation of health, moving beyond Eurocentric, Anglophone perspectivesSustainability in healthcareCritical Disability StudiesLGBTQIA healthcareGlobal histories of medicine and healthcare