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This Medical Humanities program explores the human dimensions of health and disease. As an interdisciplinary domain, Medical Humanities bridges social sciences, humanities, arts, biomedical sciences, and healthcare professions. Students tackle profound questions spanning individual health challenges to worldwide healthcare structures. By collaborating with faculty from various university departments, they discover how cultural backgrounds, belief frameworks, historical influences, and artistic expressions inform our understanding of illness and healing practices. The curriculum covers wide-ranging topics including care ethics, patient representation, perceptions of the body, storytelling in medicine, disability advocacy, racial disparities in healthcare, reproductive rights, genetic guidance, creative therapies, population health, healthcare regulations, and end-of-life considerations.