At Rice, our researchers and students examine how religion shapes people's understanding of illness, how people think about death and how they think about what kinds of care they would want at the end of their lives. We explore aspects of history and race, and how the legacy of harm to underrepresented groups results in continued health disparities today. We look at the ways that social media, technologies like artificial intelligence, and big data analytics are changing how physicians and patients relate to and communicate with one another. We look at how this influences not just physician-patient communication, but also how people think about where health care happens, what it looks like, and the role that human beings play in it.
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To learn more about the Medical Humanities program and the Medical Humanities minor, contact Andrew Stefl at 713-348-4118 or by email at stefl@rice.edu.
For more information on our facilitated acceptance program with the UT Health-McGovern Medical School, please contact Andrew Stefl at 713-348-4118 or by email at stefl@rice.edu.