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Medical Humanities and Cultural Studies: Lessons Learned from an NEH Institute

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In this essay, the directors of an NEH Institute on “Medicine, Literature, and Culture” consider the lessons they learned by bringing humanities scholars to a teaching hospital for a month-long institute that mingled seminar discussions, outside speakers and clinical observations. In an exchange of letters, they discuss the productive tensions inherent in approaching medicine from multiple perspectives, and they argue the case for a broader conception of medical humanities that incorporates the methodologies of cultural studies.

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  1. Brill Professor of Women’s Studies and English, Penn State University, USA

    Susan M. Squier

  2. Professor of Humanities, Penn State University College of Medicine, USA

    Anne Hunsaker Hawkins

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Squier, S.M., Hawkins, A.H. Medical Humanities and Cultural Studies: Lessons Learned from an NEH Institute. J Med Humanit 25, 243–253 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-004-4831-1

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