Medical Humanities
SUNY Upstate CBH
The Center for Bioethics and Humanities, a department of the College of Medicine, advances the scholarly and professional understanding of bioethics and the medical humanities.
NYU Medical Humanities
This site, established in 1994 at New York University School of Medicine, is dedicated to providing a resource for scholars, educators, students, patients, and others who are interested in the work of medical humanities. We define the term "medical humanities" broadly to include an interdisciplinary field of humanities (literature, philosophy, ethics, history and religion), social science (anthropology, cultural studies, psychology, sociology), and the arts (literature, theater, film, and visual arts) and their application to medical education and practice.
The Literature, Arts & Medicine Database [from NYU] is an annotated multimedia listing of prose, poetry, film, video and art that was developed to be a dynamic, accessible, comprehensive resource for teaching and research in MEDICAL HUMANITIES, and for use in health/pre-health, graduate and undergraduate liberal arts and social science settings.
Total Database Contents
- 148 Art Annotations
- 247 Film Annotations
- 2588 Literature Annotations
- 2 Theater Annotations
- 92 Artists
- 1640 Authors
- 139 Keywords
Where do I search?
Research in the Medical Humanities can begin with a search of the medical literature. In PubMed, add "Humanities"[Mesh] as one of your search terms to limit to the Humanities Medical Subject Heading [MeSH].
The Health Sciences Library also offers the database Humanities Source.
- Humanities Source from EBSCOThis database offers worldwide full-text content pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought.
- PubMed Humanities MeSHHumanities Medical Subject Heading [MeSH] page in Pubmed.
- Browse Medical Humanities JournalsBrowse selected Medical Humanities journals, chosen by SUNY Upstate Center for Bioethics and Humanities faculty.
HSL Humanities Collections
The Health Sciences Library has two donated collections devoted to Humanities materials!
- CBH faculty selected worksBrowse selected works from these collections, chosen by SUNY Upstate Center for Bioethics and Humanities faculty.
- Eastwood Humanities CollectionThe Dr. Gregory Eastwood Humanities Collection is comprised of works of literature, art, film and music.
- Wolseley Memorial CollectionThe Wolseley Memorial Collection, originally donated to the Library by the Wolseley family, features a variety of books relating to the physician in literature and the medical humanities.
