Duke Health Humanities Lab

The Health Humanities Lab, run by the Franklin Humanities Institute, is an initiative that bridges the humanities, Duke Health, and the Duke Global Health Institute. The FHI Health Humanities Lab takes an inventive interdisciplinary approach to understanding the health of populations locally and worldwide through work grounded in histories, literatures, languages, cultures, arts, media, and critic

al theory. The lab structure is intrinsically vertically-integrated, involving undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, faculty, and community in interest-driven research projects. We are also interested in thinking about the “whole person” in Campus and Health contexts: the dynamic continuum along which the identities of learners, educators, patients, and health care providers, are not mutually exclusive. As Provost Kornbluth has commented, “Beyond helping to train compassionate and humanistic health care providers and providing new therapeutic interventions, the health humanities can offer us novel, interdisciplinary ways of thinking about health and what it truly means to be ‘well.’”

Co-sponsored by the Provost of Duke University, Sally Kornbluth, and the Chancellor of Duke Health, Eugene Washington, the FHI HHL is committed to facilitating collaborative innovations between practitioners and scholars in the humanities, arts, and interpretive social sciences, and their counterparts in the Health Sciences. The Franklin Humanities Institute is collaborating with a sister University Institute, the Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI), to situate this lab in a new crossroads of Campus and Health: the HHL will be located in a renovated space at the Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI) at 310 Trent Drive. The FHI synergy with DGHI will facilitate new flows and interactions, including course cross-listings familiarizing Global Health students with humanities course options. The FHI Health Humanities Lab also synergizes with the Duke, University of Virginia, and University of Bologna “Academy in Global Humanities and Critical Theory.” During Fall 2016, while renovations to the DGHI space are underway, the FHI Health Humanities Lab is operating out of Project Room 2 in The Edge at Bostock Library.

06/22/2021

Disability in Medicine Seminar

Patient panel featuring interviews of eight people with intellectual/developmental disability or severe mental illness.

JUNE 23, 2021 • 4 P.M. EDT ZOOM ID: 976 8699 2883

With any questions, contact Sarah Brandsen: [email protected]

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Duke Medical Ethics Journal Publishes Spring 2021 Edition | FHI Health Humanities Lab (HHL) at Duke University

06/04/2021

Check out the latest issue of the Duke Medical Ethics Journal, which tackles the topic of Health and Identity:

Duke Medical Ethics Journal Publishes Spring 2021 Edition | FHI Health Humanities Lab (HHL) at Duke University Duke Medical Ethics Journal Publishes Spring 2021 Edition Posted on June 4, 2021June 4, 2021 by [email protected] The Duke Medical Ethics Journal (DMEJ) was created in 2019 by a team of students who recognized the importance, and lack, of ethics education in their pre-medical undergraduate curriculum.....

04/13/2021

"Pandemics, Health, & Power"

Interested in Duke fall undergrad courses in the Health Humanities? We’ve extended the deadline to apply to May 4th!

Duke Immerse is similar to FOCUS but unlike any other program among our peer universities. Students take a set of 4 courses fall 2021. The theme of this program is Pandemics, Health & Power. They will combine key methodologies and theories from the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences with mentorship, critical analysis of medicine and social policy, oral histories and writing.

Courses:

Climate, Coffee & Coronavirus: Why ecology matters to human health
BIO 153S, ENVIRON 153S, GLHLTH 153S

Literatures and Films of Pandemics
Russian 278S, ICS 251S, GLHLTH 278S, LIT 278S, ENGLISH 243S

Lives that Matter: Race, Disability, and the Ethics of Care/Work
Writing 390S, GLHLTH 390S, PUBPOL 290S, RIGHTS 390S, ETHICS 390S

History of Death
HIST 410S

More info:

bit.ly/dukeimmerse

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