The Health Humanities Consortium LLC promotes health humanities scholarship, education, and practices that focus on intersections among the humanities, arts and social sciences in health, illness, and healthcare.
Our goals are to:
- Promote understanding of the experiences of patients, caregivers, and communities as they are shaped in relation to models of disease, illness, health, and wellness.
- Share practices and scholarship through an annual meeting.
- Educate the public, healthcare professionals, and educators about the history, practice, and study of health humanities.
The Health Humanities is the study of the intersection of health and humanistic disciplines (such as philosophy, religion, literature), fine arts, as well as social science research that gives insight into the human condition (such as history, anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies).
*Adapted from the National Library of Medicine’s definition for Medical Humanities
The Health Humanities use methods such as reflection, contextualization, deep textual reading, and slow critical thinking to examine the human condition, the patient’s experience, the healer’s experience, and to provide renewal for the health care professional.
HHC Logo
Artist’s Statement by Charlene Robertson
As an artist of various mediums, I distill patterns and connections between ideas and am able to simplify concepts in clean and elegant ways. The creation of the Health Humanities Consortium logo was no different. I wanted to convey what I believe to be at the heart of health humanities: Connection.
Through the use of similar, yet uniquely shaped and colored elements, the logo becomes a mosaic. The individual elements represent the variety of disciplines that comprise the health humanities. It is through the connection of these disciplines that the health humanities thrive.
