Leveraging the Humanities for Better Health
We need more than science to protect our health. Cultural history gives us important information about how people think about their health, respond to illness, and work together in a crisis.
This is not the first time that people have spread health and political misinformation during a pandemic. This is not the first time that people have got tired of pandemic protections. The roots of anti-mask bias were in place before COVID-19. The Humanities bring these past experiences to light.
Read this open access paper on the FACETS website.
Humanities expertise can help us anticipate problems and develop more effective health measures for the future.
We have known this for decades. But the Humanities are still under-used in health research and policy. The authors of this article offer low-cost, easily implemented recommendations to better connect Humanities expertise with health research, policy, and care.
Read the paper — The humanities and health policy by Sean M. Bagshaw, Erika Dyck, Maya J. Goldenberg, Bev Holmes, Esyllt Jones, and Julia M. Wright.
