Building and Interrogating Relationships between the Medical Humanities and Humanities Approaches to the Sciences (360G-Wellcome-214155_Z_18_Z)

"Building and Interrogating Relationships between the Medical Humanities and Humanities Approaches to the Sciences" offers a programme of events led by Cardiff University’s ScienceHumanities Initiative, in collaboration with international partners, Duke University. Running over three years, we offer multiple events where humanities approaches to medicine and health are placed in sustained and productive dialogue with humanities approaches to other sciences and technologies. Humanities scholars working on medicine and health all too rarely consider other sciences and technologies, despite their proximity and comparative practices. It is time we were more ambitious in looking across this larger context. Our programme meets this challenge, igniting new methods for understanding the relations between medicine and the humanities. The programme focuses on three key themes: Populations, Energies, and Healthy Futures. Our vision is to generate further research that transforms our methodologies and enables us to meet future challenges to our understanding of medicine and health. Through annual workshops, colloquia, and summer schools, each theme will be interrogated in local, regional, and international contexts and by different forms of expert knowledge. Our project is an opportunity to uncover a new perspective on medical humanities that places itself in a wider ecosystem of sciences and technologies.