#CA-04-06 Medicine and the Arts: Humanising Healthcare
About Course
University of Cape TownDescription
Why join the course?
What Will I Learn?
- 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
Topics for this course
Introduction to Medicine and the Arts
Welcome to the course00:06:37
Share your perspective
Role of the Medical Humanities in humanising healthcare00:02:23
How the course works
Issues of the Heart
Perspectives
In Dialogue
What’s next
Although the course was a bit tedious, I enjoyed it. Because the lecturer speaks very vividly. It allows me to concentrate on my lessons.
The course explores the intersection of medicine, medical anthropology, and the creative arts. In the course I visit a new aspect of human life and think from the perspective of people working in the health sciences, social sciences and the arts. Marveling at the miraculous development of medicine.
The course allows me to discuss my ideas with learners around the world and reflect on the ways in which my body, health, social life, culture and imagination intersect in my real-life environment. Interesting course.
After this course. I learned about the many, complex perspectives on health, disease, and treatment, and learned to create alternative approaches to important health challenges. Good course.