The Department of History at Sam Houston State University was recently awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities totaling $149,992. The department is thrilled to receive this funding and establish a medical humanities program by creating a minor in the subject.
Scottie Buehler, a historian of medicine in the history department, described her field of study as an interdisciplinary field that combines perspectives from the humanities and social sciences and the natural sciences and medicine to explore the context, experiences and critical conceptual issues in medicine and healthcare.
On top of the creation of a minor in medical humanities, the grant has allowed the department to develop five new courses and four interdisciplinary lessons, expand on a speaker series, host a conference of leading minds in medical humanities and award students at the undergraduate and graduate levels for their research.
