Medical Humanities (SSC)

The major aims of this option are to engage tomorrow's doctors, collectively and as individuals,

• with the humanistic dimensions of the study and practice of medicine;
• with a range of striking visual and textual treatments of matters of medical importance--for example,
• human suffering and the effects of disease, pain and bereavement at both the individual and societal level
• medical breakthroughs and the ethical dilemmas they pose;
• with the developing history of the medical profession in Britain since the Enlightenment;
• with the importance of visual and/or verbal storytelling in communicating health narratives and inculcating compassion