Medical Humanities Network (MedHum)
An Initiative supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Back to ProgramsThis project aimed at furthering the development of medical humanities as a site and subject of study. In bringing humanistic methodologies to bear on the study of health and illness, its goals were to contribute to the ways medicine and the humanities are taught and practiced; to provide new models for research within and across fields; and to foster collaborations between academics working in humanities departments and academics in the health sciences.The six partnering humanities centers were:
- Institute for Comparative Literature and Society and Heyman Center for the Humanities (Columbia University);
- Institute for the Arts and Humanities (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
- Centre for the Humanities and Health (King's College London)
- WiSER (the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)
- Leslie Center for the Humanities (Dartmouth College)
- Research Institute for the Humanities (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

In the fall of 2015, three of the partners and other CHCI members interested in Medical Humanities joined to create a CHCI member network in order to sustain the relationships they had built around this program and to continue their fruitful collaborations. This CHCI member network created a website, based on the RapidScience platform for research collaboration, to consolidate and share their findings. The website, originally hosted at Columbia University, is now managed under the umbrella of the Health Humanities Lab at Duke University:
https://chcimedicalhumanities.org/