MA Medical and Health Humanities

The MA in Medical and Health Humanities at the University of East Anglia is a postgraduate course that offers an interdisciplinary approach to understanding health, illness, and medicine. The course explores the social, historical, and cultural dimensions of medicine, health, and disease, enabling students to make informed contributions to contemporary healthcare debates.Course Content: The programme reveals how medical and health-related issues are understood by different academic disciplines. Throughout your degree, you will examine the role of humanities in health, medical practice, and education, discussing the moral and ethical issues in these fields and exploring health in the media and cultural production. The concepts of disease and normality, the role of doctors, and the gendered body will form part of the integral learning.Key Modules: The modules you’ll study include: 'Medical and Health Humanities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives,' 'Research Skills for Medical and Health Humanities,' 'Gender, Sexuality, and Health in History,' 'Healthcare Settings, Medical Work, and the Patient Experience,' 'Global Health Humanities', and 'Dissertation: Health, Illness & Medicine.'Accreditations: The course at the University of East Anglia is accredited by the UK Higher Education Authority. Future Careers: On completing the MA in Medical and Health Humanities, students will enhance their career opportunities in health-related fields such as nursing, medicine, social work, health management, public health, health promotion, and health and social policy. This programme will also prepar students to in NGOs and international organisations, or in roles requiring skills in policy analysis, research, and project management.For more information on this course, please visit the official course page here.