How do we understand health, illness, and healing? What is the relationship between suffering, personhood, care, and our responsibilities to each other? How can we critically examine health alongside technology, power, and scientific knowledge? What roles do art, aesthetic expression, creativity, and imagination play in these conversations?

Biomedical sciences answer these questions incompletely. Medical humanities is a cutting-edge field that repositions health within its broader social, cultural, and historical context. Bridging the clinic and the archive, it leverages  tools from history, philosophy, literature, social sciences, and creative arts  to explore, analyze, and critique the complex environments of  illness and health.