About AHHM

The medical/health humanities is an emerging interdisciplinary field that connects medicine, the arts, humanities and the social sciences. It encompasses art and visual culture, drama, music, literature, narrative medicine, and design, as well as health promotion, history of medicine, medical anthropology, ethics, environment and health, and much more. It is concerned with the human-side of medicine and health care.

The Arts & Humanities in Health & Medicine (AHHM) program provides a focus for current, ongoing activities relevant to the medical/health humanities. Although part of the MD Program, AHHM is a pan-faculty initiative that contributes to the life of the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry (FoMD) and University of Alberta. The AHHM program is engaged in a wide variety of innovative scholarly, educational, and community-focused endeavors.

There are many ways to engage in learning about, and advancing medical/health humanities and practice through AHHM, including our new AHHM Affiliates & Health Humanities Hubs initiatives.


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