The Centre for Health, Arts, Society & Environment at the University of Liverpool – which is at the core of the AHRC ‘Crafting Care for People, Place and Planet’ Doctoral Focal College – offers an MA in Health, Cultures and Societies, and all modules and lectures of this master’s programme are available for ‘Crafting Care’ students to audit for free.
Researching Health, Cultures and Societies (Semester 1)
The core module ‘Researching Health, Cultures and Societies’ provides an introduction to the field of medical and health humanities. Broadly divided into the three components announced in the module title, it combines breadth (mind, body and health in history, philosophy and literature), diversity (global/comparative health cultures) and specificity (ethical, political and environmental practices in past and contemporary societies). This team-taught module builds on a wide range of disciplines and staff expertise in Classics, English, Geography, History, Medicine, Philosophy, and Public Health to provide a rich investigative terrain as well as a foundation in the key concepts, theories, questions and methodologies which will be examined in further depth in each themed module. It also draws on knowledge from outside the academy, in relation to health and environmental activism and medical ethics, for example, to integrate public-facing and professional learning with research-informed critical inquiry.
Lectures will include:
- Introduction to Medical Humanities
- Alter Anatomies: Ancient Anatomical Votives, Medicine, and Belief
- Mind
- Injurious Law (Guest Lecture – Prof Caterine Trundle)
- Illness as a Crisis of Meaning
- Challenges to Psychiatry
- Medical interpreting: Translating language, mediating cultures
- Activism
- City and Health
- What does it all mean? Medical/Health Humanities, Critical Medical Humanities and Interdisciplinarity
If you are interested in auditing this module, contact Professor Josie Billington and Dr Georgia Petridou
Critical Medical Humanities (Semester 1)
This module is concerned with the critical examination of medical practice and policy-making and how knowledges and practices of health, illness, wellbeing and medicine are constituted, represented and governed at various scales (historical, political, economic, socio-cultural). Focussing especially on biopolitical, necropolitical and biosocial arrangements (the regulation, exploitation and structural violence in respect of the body, covering reproductive care, organ trafficking, treatments of drug and alcohol addiction, war, slavery and the body in pain), the module interrogates conventional bio scientific approaches and explores new ways of knowing which decentre medical expertise and open up opportunities for critical collaborations between social sciences, humanities, medical and life sciences.
If you are interested in auditing this module, contact Professor Bethan Evans and Dr Mette Furbo
AHRC 'Crafting Care for People, Place and Planet' Doctoral Focal College 