Medical Humanities
- School for Interdisciplinary Studies
Our program investigates the human experience of health and illness.
About Us
Medical Humanities is an interdisciplinary field, one that lies at the intersection of the social sciences, the humanities, the arts, the biomedical sciences and the caregiving disciplines.
Our majors examine fundamental and far-ranging questions about health and illness, from personal health struggles to global medical systems. Through interactions with faculty members from colleges and schools across the university, they learn how different social contexts, belief systems, historical traditions and literary works shape our perspectives on disease and the healing arts. Majors explore such diverse subjects as the ethics of care, patient advocacy, body image, narrative medicine, disabilities rights, medical racism, reproductive autonomy, genetic counseling, arts-based therapies, public health, health policy and the nature of death and dying.
In their final year, all majors work one-on-one with a faculty supervisor to create a capstone project that could include placement in health care institutions or health-related organizations in New Jersey and New York City.
Learn about the Medical Humanities program and Combined Degree options!
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Meet Our Faculty
Our accomplished faculty join us from colleges and schools across the university, bringing expertise from a range of disciplines and inviting students to investigate the human experience of health and illness.
Jefferson Gatrall
- Associate Professor
Chris Herrera
- Associate Professor
Kirk Johnson
- Assistant Professor
Minji Lee
- Assistant Professor
Contact Us
- Associate Professor
- gatrallj@montclair.edu
- (973) 655-3409
- Conrad J. Schmitt Hall Room 205H
- Administrative Team Lead
- seferiank@montclair.edu
- Dickson Hall
Program Coordinator
- harryh@montclair.edu
- Dickson Hall Room 463