Medical Humanities

Master

In London

£ 9,900 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    2 Years

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Our course lets you explore 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?

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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Start date

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About this course

• Unrivalled central London location, giving immediate access to important medico-historical and cultural resources, including libraries, galleries, archives and museums, eg 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 & Mental Disorder, Medical Portraiture, Nursing & 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.

The course will appeal to you if you are a medical or health professional, a student of health policy or if you want to pursue further academic study in medicine and/or the humanities, if you are hoping to study on a Medical Humanities PhD course, or if you are thinking about a career in journalism or bioethics.

An undergraduate clinical qualification, eg in Medicine or Nursing, or at least a 2:1 bachelors degree in a humanities or a science discipline. Other relevant degree-level qualifications will be considered.

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Subjects

  • Medical
  • Medical training
  • Humanities
  • Medical Humanities
  • Mental Disorder
  • Narrative Medicine
  • Clinical Encounter
  • Literature
  • Genres of Science
  • Medicine & Science

Course programme

Courses are divided into modules.

You will normally take modules totalling 180 credits.Required ModulesYou 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, along with two modules from the list below in your second year. You will take the rest in your first year.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 & 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. We suggest you keep an eye on the course finder on our website for updates.

Additional information

Full time overseas fees: £21,300 per year (2019/20)
Part time Home/EU fees: £4,995 per year (2019/20)
Part time overseas fees: £12,750 per year (2019/20)

Medical Humanities

£ 9,900 VAT inc.