Our group explores the intersection of medicine, healthcare practices and the human experience through the lens of the humanities. We provide a platform for teaching innovations, public engagement, research collaborations and grant applications.
The Faculties of Medicine, Arts and Humanities, and Social Sciences created the Centre for Medical and Health Humanities based on their existing work together and future collaborations.
The centre promotes interdisciplinary research and hosts external events including guest speakers, seminars and conferences.
Our main aims are to publicise the work done by our members, and to forge and extend links with researchers in other institutions globally.
Research, public engagement, and education are core to the interdisciplinary and innovative projects the Southampton Centre for Medical and Health Humanities is developing.
Medical Humanities as a field of enquiry and arts and humanities based practice have been embedded in Medical Education through collaboration between faculties, developing medical students’ creativity, criticality and reflective practice.
As a historian I am intrigued by how 'wellbeing' emerged as a category of understanding and experience. Studying the promotion of natural health therapies in early to mid-20th-century France helps me understand the role of physicians in shaping popular ideas of health and beauty.
