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Transforming Undergraduate Global Health Education Through a Humanities-Focused Curriculum

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Stewart, KA
Published in: Pedagogy in Health Promotion
March 1, 2020

Global health needs the humanities today as medicine needed the humanities in the 1970s. When new biomedical technologies threatened to undermine the physician in their primary role of healing the patient, the field of medical humanities emerged to rehumanize the doctor and revive physician empathy through humanities methods and content such as close reading of poetry and novels, reflective writing, and critiquing art. In contrast, many of today’s undergraduate global health students are plagued by a surfeit, rather than a lack, of empathy to “save the world.” As the medical humanities transformed medical education, can today’s humanities and arts, especially the new fields of health humanities and critical medical humanities, transform global health education and practice by igniting a “global health humanities”? This essay focuses on emerging pedagogical and curricular challenges in nonclinical, undergraduate global health training primarily in North America.

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Pedagogy in Health Promotion

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2373-3802

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2373-3799

Publication Date

March 1, 2020

Volume

6

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1

Start / End Page

9 / 13

Related Subject Headings

  • 1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy
  • 1117 Public Health and Health Services
 

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Stewart, K. A. (2020). Transforming Undergraduate Global Health Education Through a Humanities-Focused Curriculum. Pedagogy in Health Promotion, 6(1), 9–13. https://doi.org/10.1177/2373379919900534
Stewart, K. A. “Transforming Undergraduate Global Health Education Through a Humanities-Focused Curriculum.” Pedagogy in Health Promotion 6, no. 1 (March 1, 2020): 9–13. https://doi.org/10.1177/2373379919900534.
Stewart KA. Transforming Undergraduate Global Health Education Through a Humanities-Focused Curriculum. Pedagogy in Health Promotion. 2020 Mar 1;6(1):9–13.
Stewart, K. A. “Transforming Undergraduate Global Health Education Through a Humanities-Focused Curriculum.” Pedagogy in Health Promotion, vol. 6, no. 1, Mar. 2020, pp. 9–13. Scopus, doi:10.1177/2373379919900534.
Stewart KA. Transforming Undergraduate Global Health Education Through a Humanities-Focused Curriculum. Pedagogy in Health Promotion. 2020 Mar 1;6(1):9–13.
Journal cover image

Published In

Pedagogy in Health Promotion

DOI

EISSN

2373-3802

ISSN

2373-3799

Publication Date

March 1, 2020

Volume

6

Issue

1

Start / End Page

9 / 13

Related Subject Headings

  • 1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy
  • 1117 Public Health and Health Services