New CIP code “Medical/Health Humanities” (51.3204) available for reporting your degree and certificate program data in federal data collection. See here for details.

• Crawford, Paul,Brown, Brian, and Charise, Andrea (editors). The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Health-Humanities-1st-Edition/Crawford-Brown-Charise/p/book/9781138579903
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October 2020 International Health Humanities Conference in Tokyo

The 9th International Health Humanities Conference will be held in October 2020 at St. Luke’s International University in Tokyo. The conference website is now live at the following link:

https://confit.atlas.jp/ihhc2020?lang=en

We are hoping to kick off the health humanities in Japan and Asia with a bang, so please consider submitting a proposal and/or joining us! Contact Jeffrey Huffman (jeffhuffman@slcn.ac.jp) with any questions or inquiries.