Cultures and Environments of Health MA

Overview

• Based in the inter-disciplinary Wellcome Centre for Cultures & Environments of Health, you will benefit from engaged and transformative research, which draws on medical humanities, social sciences and medical sciences.
• Examine how experiences of health, illness and medical knowledge are shaped by diverse environments, cultural practices and beliefs.
• Explore how diverse types of evidence about health and wellbeing are used across different disciplines and sectors, and the impacts this has on the ways we conceive, respond to, and experience health and social care.
• Investigate how evidence from the medical humanities and social sciences can be used to help develop and evaluate innovative and effective public health initiatives.
• Upon graduation, you will be equipped to become a leader in transforming health research and health and social care practice within a range of professions.

Overview

The MA Cultures and Environments of Health (Medical History and Humanities) offers an unusually large choice of modules, enabling students to take a rich and interdisciplinary approach. The modules available are from across the social sciences, medical sciences and humanities, with expert tuition in all areas including health inequalities, life-course approaches, biosocialities, mental health, urban health and methodological innovation.