Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Medicine and the Arts: Humanising Healthcare
University of Cape Town
This online introductory course explored the medical humanities. Learners considered multiple disciplinary perspectives in different healthcare contexts, engaging through video lectures, online discussions, quizzes and short assignments.
6 weeks, 3 hours per week
Steve Reid
Professor of Primary Healthcare
University of Cape Town
Susan Levine
Associate Professor of Anthropology
University of Cape Town
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Identify interdisciplinary perspectives in health and humanities used in addressing complex healthcare challenges
- Discuss how the arts and humanities contribute to improved healthcare practices
- Understand the role of the arts in approaches to healthcare within six health-related topics
- Contribute your local perspective and relate it to the perspective of others
Syllabus
- The medical humanities and interdisciplinarity
- Different understandings of the human heart
- Children’s experience of illness and healing
- Relationships between the mind, art and play
- Creativity and innovation in healthcare
- Representations of mental illness
- Medical, social and cultural understandings of death
Issued on 25th March 2021
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