Medical Humanities Certificate
The Medical Humanities Certificate offers students across a wide range of colleges, programs, and majors the opportunity to approach medicine and healthcare in a collaborative and interdisciplinary way. Students will learn about the interactions between human experience, medical practice, and scientific technology, while also gaining insights into the historical, social, and cultural contexts of a wide range of topics including disease, pharmaceuticals, the medical profession, sexuality, and mental illness.
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Fall 2024 Course Offerings
Current Events
Feb. 2024
Purdue University's Medical Humanities Presents:
Birth/Rebirth Film
Screening in Fowler Hall from 5:30-7:15pm.
Q&A with director Laura Moss from 7:15-7:45pm.
Past Events
Sept. - Dec. 2019
Purdue University's Medical Humanities Collective Presents:
HIV-AIDS Film Series.
Showings in RAWLS 1011 from 7-10pm.
Sample Courses
CLCS 38500 - Science, Medicine And Magic In The Ancient West
ENGL 42201 - Writing For The Health And Human Sciences
HIST 47005 - Women And Health In America
HIST 31505 - American Beauty
PHIL 28000 - Ethics And Animals
SPAN 32200 - Spanish For The Health Professions
ANTH 32500/SOC 35200 - Drugs, Culture, And Society
HIST 36305 - The History of Medicine and Public Health (SPRING SEMESTER)
Student Spotlight
Morgan Kuenning
Pre-Pharmacy Major
"By looking back at the history and roots of diseases and medicine it really helped further the understanding of modern day practices and opinions in the medical field. Wanting to go into a medicine based field myself I found it very valuable to learn about the social mindsets around diseases rather than just the scientific facts to know the roots of how certain social stigmas came to be."
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Affiliated Departments
Become Involved
If you are a scholar who is interested in becoming active in the Medical Humanities Program here at Purdue, please see the Medical Humanities Collective* page for more information.
*currently under construction.