A new Centre for Medical Humanities established at Oxford Brookes University
The Centre for Medical Humanities (CMH) was established at Oxford Brookes University in early 2015. It marks an exciting expansion and diversification of the work previously conducted through the Centre for Health, Medicine and Society which over the past 15 years has been the beneficiary of substantial support from both Oxford Brookes University and the Wellcome Trust. The CMH is building on this track record of outstanding research and grant successes, innovative teaching, career development and public engagement. Engaging with the expanding field of medical humanities, the CMH brings historians of medicine together with scholars from History, History of Art, Philosophy, Social and Life Sciences as well as Anthropology and Religion. It thus aims to foster genuine interdisciplinary collaboration amongst staff and students through a range of new research and teaching initiatives. Our priorities now more clearly reflect the new concerns with health, clinical practice and medical care as well as the challenges posed by a redefinition of the relationship between medicine and the humanities in the twentieth first century.
For more information please contact the Centre’s Director: Dr Marius Turda and/or visit us online.