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2024-25 Courses for the Medical Humanities Minor

Students should check with individual course directors for eligibility, prerequisites or other enrollment limitations. Classes highlighted in bold would be particularly appropriate; students can also petition to include courses not only the list but pertinent to their project or plan of study.

Courses

AMSTUD 141: Psychedelic America

AMSTUD 156H: Women and Medicine in US History: Women as Patients, Healers and Doctors (FEMGEN 156H)

ANES 121: Ethnicity and Medicine (ANES 221)

ANES 207: Medical Acupuncture

ANES 221: Ethnicity and Medicine (ANES 121)

ANTHRO 82: Medical Anthropology (ANTHRO 282, HUMBIO 176A)

ANTHRO 120H: Introduction to the Medical Humanities (DLCL 120, FRENCH 120E, ITALIAN 120)

ANTHRO 186: Culture and Madness: Anthropological and Psychiatric Approaches to Mental Illness (ANTHRO 286, HUMBIO 146, PSYC 286)

ASNAMST 126: The Labors of Care

ASNAMST 193F: Psychological Well-Being on Campus: Asian American Perspectives (EDUC 193F)

ASNAMST 268: Tackling Asian-American Health Challenges (MED 268)

ASNAMST 272: Science and History of Traditional Chinese Medicine (CHINA 272, MED 272)

BIO 4N: The Science and Ethics of Personalized Genomic Medicine

BIODS 216: Generative AI and Medicine (MED 216)

BIOE 131: Ethics in Bioengineering (ETHICSOC 131X)

BIOS 410: Health Innovations for Equity: The basics of design and innovation to create impact

COMPLIT 154F: Fanon (FEMGEN 154F, FRENCH 154F)

CS 337: AI-Assisted Care (MED 277)

CS 342: Building for Digital Health (MED 253)

CS 372: Artificial Intelligence for Precision Medicine and Psychiatric Disorders

CSRE 243C: People, Plants, and Medicine: Atlantic World Amerindian, African, and European Science (CSRE 443C, FEMGEN 443C, HISTORY 243C, HISTORY 343C, HISTORY 443C)

DANCE 121: Creative and Contemplative Movement: Intro to Qigong (LIFE 121)

DANCE 224: Physical Listening (SOMGEN 224)

DESIGN 265: Psychedelic Medicine by Design

ECON 126: Economics of Health and Medical Care (BIOMEDIN 156, BIOMEDIN 256, HRP 256)

ECON 127: Economics of Health Improvement in Developing Countries (HRP 227, MED 262)

EMED 122: BioSecurity and Pandemic Resilience (BIOE 122, EMED 222, PUBLPOL 122, PUBLPOL 222)

EMED 127: Health Care Leadership (EMED 227, PUBLPOL 127, PUBLPOL 227)

EMED 134: Climate Change, Toxins, and Health: From Education to Action (EMED 234)

EPI 238: Genes and Environment in Disease Causation: Implications for Medicine and Public Health (HUMBIO 159)

ETHICSOC 107: Rethinking Meat: An Introduction to Alternative Proteins (EARTHSYS 109, EARTHSYS 209, ESS 103, ESS 203)

FAMMED 201: Innovations in Patient and Family Centered Primary Care

FAMMED 210: The Healer's Art

FAMMED 213: Medical Tai Chi

FEMGEN 5C/105C: Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives (CSRE 5C, HISTORY 5C, INTNLREL 5C)

FEMGEN 44Q: Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, Engineering, and Environment (HISTORY 44Q)

FEMGEN 144: Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, Engineering, and Environment (HISTORY 144)

FEMGEN 150Q: Challenging Sex and Gender Dichotomies in Biology and Medicine (SOMGEN 150Q)

HISTORY 40: World History of Science: From Prehistory through the Scientific Revolution

HISTORY 140: World History of Science: From Prehistory through the Scientific Revolution

HRP 243A: Health Policy Seminar

HRP 243B: Health Policy Seminar: Health Care

HUMBIO 27: Traditional Chinese Medicine

HUMBIO 159: Genes and Environment in Disease Causation: Implications for Medicine and Public Health (EPI 238)

HUMBIO 163: The Opioid Epidemic: Using Neuroscience to Inform Policy and Law

HUMBIO 171E: Modern Ethical Challenges in Neuroscience and Organ Transplantation

HUMBIO 174: Foundations of Bioethics

JAPAN 191: Sharing Conversations Across Generations: The Magic of Haiku (ASNAMST 191, JAPAN 291)

LAW 809U: Policy Practicum: Climate and Rural Health

LIFE 53Q: Storytelling in Medicine (MED 53Q)

MED 54Q: Decolonizing Global Health

MED 73N: Scientific Method and Bias

MED 159: Oaxacan Health on Both Sides of the Border

MED 160: Physician Shadowing: Stanford Immersion in Medicine Series (SIMS)

MED 242: Human Rights and Health

MED 256: Lasting Letters and the Art of Deep Listening (WELLNESS 256)

PSYC 215B: Introduction to Psychedelic Medicine

PSYC 216L: Psychedelics and Social Justice Lecture Series

PSYC 233: Mindfulness: An Awareness-Based Stress Reduction Program in Medicine

PSYCH 28N: The Cultural Shaping of Emotion (CSRE 28N)

PWR 1LF: Writing & Rhetoric 1: #NoBodyIsDisposable: The Rhetoric of Disability

PWR 1TD: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Anatomy of a Discipline: Rhetorics of Health, Illness, and Medicine

PWR 2SPB: Writing & Rhetoric 2: Hope, Health, and Healing: The Rhetoric of Medicine

SOMGEN 130: Sexual Diversity and Function Across Medical Disciplines

SOMGEN 203: Literature and Writing for Military Affiliated Students

SOMGEN 206: Global Medical Issues Affecting Women (FEMGEN 206)

SOMGEN 207: Theories of Change in Global Health (INTLPOL 291, PUBLPOL 291)

SOMGEN 213: The Art of Observation: Enhancing Clinical Skills Through Visual Analysis

STS 115: The Ethics of Innovative Life-Saving Technologies for Children with Heart Disease