Moving medical humanities forward: Friday, December 11, 3:30 PM CST

Moving medical humanities forward: a discussion on the nature and importance of the medical humanities. From the news release:

Mississippi State University’s Institute for the Humanities is hosting an online final event for this semester, featuring experts in the medical humanities for a discussion on this interdisciplinary field.

Courtney Thompson, assistant professor in MSU’s Department of History, and Jessica Martucci, research associate in the Division of Ethics at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, will provide insight on the discipline that combines humanities, social sciences and the arts into conversation with biomedicine. The virtual program aims to demonstrate the influence of humanities on medicine in the past and present.

The Dec. 11, 3:30 p.m. CST event on the institute’s Facebook page is open to the public and hosted by Julia Osman, director of the Institute for the Humanities and an MSU associate professor of history.

For other posts on the medical humanities, see here.