Health, Culture, and Compassion

FAIN: AKB-279297-21

Bellarmine College (Louisville, KY 40205-1863)
Jessica Hume (Project Director: September 2020 to present)

The expansion of a health humanities minor to an interdisciplinary undergraduate major program.

Through critical thinking and analysis in the fields of literature, writing, bioethics, spirituality, fine arts, social sciences, anthropology, politics, and law, the program will allow students to explore health from person- and society-centered perspectives. Funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) will allow for expansion of the current HCC minor to an interdisciplinary major with three tracks: Narrative Health and Medical Humanities (NHMH); Health Disparities and Health Equity (HDHE); and Aging and End-of-Life Studies (AEoLS).