Program

Education Programs: Humanities Connections

Period of Performance

5/1/2017 - 8/31/2020

Funding Totals

$97,491.00 (approved)
$94,453.33 (awarded)


Patients, Practitioners, and Cultures of Care

FAIN: AK-255269-17

University of Texas, Austin (Austin, TX 78712-0100)
Stephen M. Sonnenberg (Project Director: September 2016 to October 2022)

A two-year project to develop five courses to form a new medical humanities concentration within an existing interdisciplinary program.

We seek NEH support to develop Patients, Practitioners, and Cultures of Care as a concentration in the Bridging Disciplines Program under the auspices of the University of Texas at Austin's School of Undergraduate Studies. Aimed primarily at the sizable number of undergraduates at UT Austin who plan to go on to post-graduate education and careers in health professions, Patients, Practitioners, and Cultures of Care will weave together academic study, experiential learning, and student research in a set of linked courses. The proposed concentration is designed to illuminate for students the central role the humanities can and should play as they prepare themselves to address the multiple challenges facing healthcare providers today, and healthcare itself as a shared local, national, and global project.





Associated Products

Bridging Disciplines Program Patients, Practitioners, and Cultures of Care (Center)
Name: Bridging Disciplines Program Patients, Practitioners, and Cultures of Care
Abstract: This interdisciplary program was the goal of the grant, It now serves undergraduates at Univ of TX Austin, is robust, very popular, is changing interdisciplinary perspectives involving healthcare, medical humanities and ethics at the university and beyond. It has national influence.
Director: Stephen M. Sonnenberg, M.D.
Year: 2020
Address: The University of Texas at Austin 2501 Whitis Avenue, Carothers Dormitory (CRD) 31 Campus Mail Stop F5025 Austin, TX 78701