Medical Humanities

Master

In London

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    London

Overview
This programme explores the links between the humanities and medicine from a humanities point of view. Among the questions it considers are: What can the humanities contribute to healthcare? How do they differ from the sciences? And what can they tell us about illness?

Key benefits
Unrivalled central London location, giving immediate access to important medico-historical and cultural resources, including libraries, galleries, archives and museums, e.g. The Wellcome Collection and Library, the Hunterian Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, the British Library etc.
World class expertise in a breadth of subject areas, including: History of Psychiatry, Literature & Medicine, Philosophy of Medicine and Mental Disorder, Medical Portraiture, Nursing and Film, Bioethics.
Taught at the Wellcome-funded Centre for the Humanities & Health, which supports the research activities of internationally renowned scholars in the field; has a vibrant and active post-graduate and post-doctoral community; and hosts a lively programme of seminars, conferences and events.
Close links between the Faculty of Arts & Humanities and one of the largest Schools of Biomedicine in Europe.

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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Strand, WC2R 2LS

Start date

On request

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Subjects

  • Psychiatry
  • Medical
  • Medical training
  • Humanities

Course programme

Year 1 Required Modules

You are required to take:

  • Themes in Medical Humanities (40 credits)
  • Advanced Skills for the Medical Humanities (20 credits)
  • Dissertation (60 credits)

If you are a part-time student, you will take your dissertation in your second year. You will take the other modules in your first year.

  • Advanced Skills For The Medical Humanities
  • Themes in the Medical Humanities
Optional Modules

In addition, you are required to take three modules (totalling 60 credits) from a range of optional modules that may typically include:

  • Illness Narrative as Life Writing (20 credits)
  • The Concept of Mental Disorder (20 credits)
  • Narrative Medicine (20 credits)
  • Medicine on Screen (20 credits)
  • Medical Discourses (30 credits)
  • The Clinical Encounter in 20th century French Literature (20 credits)
  • Genres of Science Writing in the Nineteenth Century (20 credits)
  • The History of the Senses, 1680 – 1820 (20 credits)
  • Body and Society in Early Modern Europe (20 credits)
  • People, Portraits & Things (20 credits)
  • London Histories of Medicine & Science (20 credits)
  • Law & Reproduction I and II (20 credits each)
  • Up to 30 credits from master’s modules offered by the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy, subject to approvals

King’s College London reviews the modules offered on a regular basis to provide up-to-date, innovative and relevant programmes of study. Therefore, modules offered may change.

  • Literature & Psychiatry In The Twentieth Century
  • Medical Discourses

Medical Humanities

Price on request