Fall 2018
INTRODUCTION TO MEDICAL HUMANITIES
MDHM 201 (FORMERLY HURC 201)
Instructor: Mitchell, Beverly M.
Examines the history of medicine, concepts of disease vs illness, narrative medicine, health disparities, religion, spirituality, and the role of science and technology on the practices of healthcare. Students will develop skills in close reading, interpretation, historical contextualization, critical thinking. This course is required for the minor in Medical Humanities. Credit cannot be earned for MDHM 201 and HURC 201. (View Registrar Listing)
ETHNOGRAPHIES OF CARE
ANTH 342
Instructor: Zeweri, Helena
An ethnographically grounded exploration of the political, social, and intimate relations that constitute care in various situations of life and death. We ask how particular populations come to be understood as requiring, receiving, or being entitle to care? Who becomes obliged to provide care? And what are care's collateral effects? Credit cannot be earned for ANTH 342 and ANTH 542.
DISABILITY AND GENDERED BODIES
ANTH 354
Instructor: Borodina, Svetlana
This course draws on critical disability studies and medical anthropology to explore how gender and sexuality matter in contexts of illness and disability across a range of institutional, social, and national contexts. We pay particular attention to the ways illness and disability expose, disturb, or retrench normative arrangements of gender. Credit cannot be earned for ANTH 354 and ANTH 554.
DISPARITIES IN HEALTH IN AMERICA
HEAL 380
Instructor: Diep, Cassandra S.
This course explores the aspects of race and ethnicity that influence health, public health policy, and the management and practice of healthcare, as well as, the trends which drive ethnic demographic transition including an aging white population, declining white birth rate, immigration of non-whites, and the higher birth rate of minority groups. Credit cannot be earned for HEAL 380 and HEAL 580. (View Registrar Listing)
BIOMEDICAL APPROACH TO HISTORY
HIST 312 Distribution Group I
Instructor: Lopez Alonso, Moramay
This is a course in history of medicine, diseases and public health, demography, and nutrition. It delves on classic works on the history of human societies. It will also use historical studies from particular disciplines such as biology, demography, medicine, nutrition, anthropology, and economic concentrating around disease, medicine and public health. (View Registrar Listing)
HEALTH AND HUMANITIES MASTER CLASS
HURC 306/506
Instructor: Bailar, Melissa A.
Faculty from Rice University, University of Texas School of Public health, and University of Houston, as well as practitioners in the Texas Medical Center, will lead class discussions on different aspects of the health industry today. The class will meet Tuesday evenings at the McGovern Museum of Health and Medical Science and at Rice Thursdays. Students will read essays, case studies, and fiction or watch films to prepare for each discussion. Credit cannot be earned for HURC 306 and HURC 506. (View Registrar Listing)
MEDICAL PROFESSIONALISM AND OBSERVERSHIP
NSCI 399
Instructor: Merlo, Gia
NSCI 399 consists of lectures to enhance your knowledge of medical professionalism, a writing experience aimed at reflecting on your experiences in both the lectures and clinical settings, and an opportunity to shadow a physician and/or observe in the operating room, intensive care unit or other clinical unit at Houston Methodist hospital. Once enrolled, students will have the opportunity to review the experiences of past students to select a specialty that closely aligns with your goals and expectations. Please note, matching with physicians will not occur until students begin matriculating in NSCI 399. The physician selection process will be explained during class. The process and application deadlines can be found using the following link: https://goo.gl/HD7zsO. NOTE: Space is limited and registration for NSCI 009 DOES NOT GUARANTEE a seat in NSCI 399. (View Registrar Listing)
THE PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE
PHIL 314 Distribution Group I
Instructor: Kao, Ya-Yun
The biomedical sciences, the practice of medicine, and health care policy employ concepts of health, disease, disability, and defect in explanatory accounts, intermixing factual claims with moral and other evaluations. This course explores the interplay of evaluation and explanation in medicine's models of disease and health. (View Registrar Listing)
SEMINAR ON THE END OF LIFE
RELI 344 Distribution Group I
Instructor: Brennan, Marcia G.
This course examines themes associated with death and dying from the historical through the contemporary periods. The class will adopt highly multidisciplinary approach that combines the critical perspectives of biomedicine, religious studies, art history, philosophy, anthropology, bioethics, and cultural studies as we consider life at the end of life. (View Registrar Listing)
RELIGION AND SCIENCE
RELI 362/563
Instructor: Clements, Niki K.
This advanced seminar analyzes interdisciplinary efforts by scholars of religion to engage scientific research in the cognitive and neuro- sciences. We assess the possibilities for collaboration, as well as conflict, between humanistic and scientific disciplines, asking how the tools of interpretation and empiricism might enrich our understanding of religious phenomena. Credit cannot be earned for RELI 362 and RELI 563. (View Registrar Listing)
MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY
SOCI 345 Distribution Group II
Instructor: TBD
This course will explore the relationship between social factors and health, illness, and mortality, with a heavy emphasis on experiences of illness, the doctor-patient relationship, and the socialization of medical students and new doctors. Social determinants of health, cultural determinants of health, and the ethics surrounding conception, birth, and death will also be discussed. (View Registrar Listing)
HRC PRACTICUM IN HEALTH HUMANITIES
HURC 430
Instructor: Mulligan, John C.
This research-based course is conducted in partnership with health institutions in Houston. Qualified and advanced students work 10 hours/week on site with health professionals, archivists, center directors, and others to develop projects in specific research areas. Students meet regularly with instructor to discuss research and to present work at an end of semester symposium. Repeatable for Credit. (View Registrar Listing)
HEALTH, HUMANISM AND SOCIETY SCHOLARS MEDICAL HUMANITIES PRACTICUM 1
MDHM 402
Instructor: Mulligan, John C.
Humanities and social science students are matched with medical humanities research projects in TMC. Students conduct research under guidance of on-site supervisor and follow curriculum under guidance of Rice faculty, developing skills for careers after graduation. Yearlong sequence continues as MDHM 403 in spring. Credit cannot be earned for MDHM 402 and HUMA 402. Repeatable for Credit. (View Registrar Listing)
MEDICAL PROFESSIONALISM AND OBSERVERSHIP
NSCI 399
Instructor: Merlo, Gia
NSCI 399 consists of lectures to enhance your knowledge of medical professionalism, a writing experience aimed at reflecting on your experiences in both the lectures and clinical settings, and an opportunity to shadow a physician and/or observe in the operating room, intensive care unit or other clinical unit at Houston Methodist hospital. Once enrolled, students will have the opportunity to review the experiences of past students to select a specialty that closely aligns with your goals and expectations. Please note, matching with physicians will not occur until students begin matriculating in NSCI 399. The physician selection process will be explained during class. The process and application deadlines can be found using the following link: https://goo.gl/HD7zsO. NOTE: Space is limited and registration for NSCI 009 DOES NOT GUARANTEE a seat in NSCI 399. (View Registrar Listing)