Comparative Perspectives on Health, Illness, and Healing

FAIN: AC-50175-13

CUNY Research Foundation, NYC College of Technology (Brooklyn, NY 11201-1909)
Barbara Grumet (Project Director: July 2012 to December 2013)
Mary Sue Donsky (Project Director: December 2013 to May 2015)
Mary Sue Donsky (Co Project Director: June 2013 to May 2015)

A year-long faculty development project to explore the practice of medicine as an expression of beliefs and value systems that differ across cultures.

Designed by faculty in nursing, radiological technology, dental hygiene, vision care, biology, and law and paralegal studies departments, Comparative Perspectives on Health, Illness and Healing, a year-long humanities project that will explore the practice of medicine as a manifestation of cultural beliefs and value systems that have differed widely across cultures and over the course of history.