Yale Council on the Medical Humanities & the Arts
P.O. Box 208015
New Haven, CT 06520
Tel: 203.785.4701
Fax: 203.737.4130
medhumarts@yale.edu
The Yale Medical Humanities and the Arts Council is committed to fostering the use of the humanities, social sciences, and the arts as a lens for examining issues in health, medicine, and healing. Serving the Yale School of Medicine community is the chief goal of the Yale Medical Humanities and the Arts Council. To this end, we seek to publicize events and initiatives, cultivate a network of people and programs, and promote interdisciplinary communication and community awareness by enhancing the visibility of the rich resources and activities at Yale and in our region. more...
Yale courses relevant to Medical Humanities and the Arts. more...
The readings in these lists lean heavily to medical history as one lens for examining interactions among medicine, culture, and society. Each grouping represents a sample of worthwhile works, not an introductory (and certainly not a comprehensive) bibliography. more...
Stay informed with the Yale Medical Humanities and the Arts Council. more...
An International Conference which will bring together the world's medical anthropologists to celebrate past achievements and to foster an exchange of ideas that will inspire path-breaking work in our next 50 years. September 24-29, 2009 at Yale University. more...
Most MD-PhD students do their doctoral research in the biomedical sciences. A very small number, however, choose to pursue graduate training in the humanities or social sciences. From March 28 to 29, over 90 of these physician-scholars in training convened in Philadelphia. more...
This riveting account of medical detective work traces the story of kuru, a fatal brain disease, and the pioneering scientists who spent decades searching for its cause and cure. more...
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