Courses

Courses and sessions related to medical humanities are offered as freestanding courses and as part of various study programmes.

Freestanding Courses

The following freestanding courses are available:

• Introduction to the Medical Humanities, 4–6 credits at PhD level, Department of History of Science and Ideas
• Latin for Natural Scientists, 7.5 credits, Department of Linguistics and Philology
• Medicine and Power: Historical Perspectives, 7.5 credits, Department of History of Science and Ideas
• Technologies of Visualisation: Art and Science as Practices of Knowledge 1700-2000, 7.5 credits, Department of Art History

If you are interested in one of these courses and want more information, please contact the department offering the course.

Programme Courses and Sessions

Medical humanities are also integrated in study programmes in medicine and pharmacology:

• Medicine in Culture and Society, 7.5. credits, elective course in programmes in medicine, nursing, specialist nursing, pharmacy, and physiotherapy, Department of History of Science and Ideas
• Sessions in gender medicine, history of science, and theory of science within the medicine programme (integrated in courses Professional development II, Degree project, Integration Neuroendocrinology – Sex and Gender)
• Session concerning Power relations in health care settings for the Specialist Nusing Programme.

For more information about these last items, please contact Ylva Söderfeldt.