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Medical Humanities Program


Students in the medical humanities program at Rice study the social, cultural, ethical, and historical dimensions of how doctors, patients, and communities understand the lived experience of health and disease.

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.

Medical Humanities Program

Informal Advising Session

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Tuesday November 5th, 2024

Questions about classes? The minor? Research opportunities?

Drop by for pizza and conversation with Dr. Melissa Bailar, Associate Director of the Medical Humanities Program, and Dr. Katherine Shwetz, Medical Humanities Postdoctoral Associate. They will both be available to answer your questions about the Medical Humanities Program.

We look forward to meeting with you!
We will be serving pizza from Star Pizza 🍕


12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, November 5th, 2024
Rice University: Herring Hall Courtyard

To learn more about the program in the meantime, please visit our website: https://medicalhumanities.rice.edu/

Questions? Please contact: Althea Pearl Carlson, MDHM Administrator at althea.carlson@rice.edu

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