the human dimensions of healthcare
The Centre for the Humanities and Health (CHH) is a UK leader in the Health Humanities, dedicated to researching the cultural meaning and lived experiences of wellbeing and illness through humanities and creative arts scholarship and practices. CHH is interested in investigating the roles patient experiences play in cultural and medical discourses and how they are valued or disregarded as forms of evidence and expertise contributing to medical and scientific knowledge. CHH aims to:
- raise academic and public awareness of the Health Humanities as a locus of research, reflection and teaching on health, wellbeing and illness
- revalorise subjectivity in healthcare practices and scholarship
- engage with healthcare services, researchers and patient organisations
- provide training at masters, PhD, and postdoctoral levels for humanities, medical, nursing and science students.
Group leads
Professor of English Literature & the Health Humanities
Professor of French
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Related departments
- Faculty of Arts & Humanities
- Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
- Department of English
- Department of Philosophy
- Department of Adult Nursing
- Department of Anatomy
- Department of History
- Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience
- Department of Digital Humanities
- Department of Culture, Media & Creative Industries
- Department of Classics
- Department of Liberal Arts
- Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures