2025-26 Courses for the Medical Humanities Minor
Students should check with individual course directors for eligibility, prerequisites or other enrollment limitations. Classes listed below are recommended. Students can also petition to include courses not on the list but pertinent to their project or plan of study.
Courses
AFRICAAM 127: Health Impact of Sexual Assault and Relationship Abuse Across the Lifecourse
AFRICAAM 442: (Re)Framing Difference: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Disability, Race, and Culture
AMSTUD 141: Psychedelic America
AMSTUD 156H: Women and Medicine in US History: Women as Patients, Healers and Doctors (FEMGEN 156H)
ANES 121: Ethnicity and Medicine (ANES 221)
ANES 207: Medical Acupuncture
ANES 221: Ethnicity and Medicine (ANES 121)
ANTHRO 82: Medical Anthropology (ANTHRO 282, HUMBIO 176A)
ANTHRO 111: Archaeology of Gender and Sexuality
ANTHRO 118: Ghosts, Gods, Spirits, and Companion AI: Talking with Non-Human Others Across the World
ANTHRO 120H: Introduction to the Medical Humanities (DLCL 120, FRENCH 120E, ITALIAN 120)
ANTHRO 131W: Intro to the Illicit Economies of Addiction: Anthropological Perspectives on Drug Use and Policing
ANTHRO 139A: Archaeology and Disability
ANTHRO 148: Health, Politics, and Culture of Modern China
ANTHRO 186: Culture and Madness: Anthropological and Psychiatric Approaches to Mental Illness (ANTHRO 286, HUMBIO 146, PSYC 286)
ANTHRO 265G: Writing and Voice: Anthropological Telling Through Literature and Practices of Expression
ANTHRO 443: Medical Humanities Workshop
ARTSTUDI 139: Portraiture and Facial Anatomy for Artists
ASNAMST 126: The Labors of Care
ASNAMST 193F: Psychological Well-Being on Campus: Asian American Perspectives (EDUC 193F)
ASNAMST 268: Tackling Asian-American Health Challenges (MED 268)
ASNAMST 272: Science and History of Traditional Chinese Medicine (CHINA 272, MED 272)
BIO 4N: The Science and Ethics of Personalized Genomic Medicine
BIODS 216: Generative AI and Medicine (MED 216)
BIOE 131: Ethics in Bioengineering (ETHICSOC 131X)
BIOS 410: Health Innovations for Equity: The basics of design and innovation to create impact
COMPLIT 138: Literature and the Brain
COMPLIT 154F: Fanon (FEMGEN 154F, FRENCH 154F)
CS 337: AI-Assisted Care (MED 277)
CS 342: Building for Digital Health (MED 253)
CS 372: Artificial Intelligence for Precision Medicine and Psychiatric Disorders
CSRE 37Q: Food Justice Now! Power and Politics in the Ways We Eat
CSRE 47Q: Heartfulness: Mindfulness, Compassion, and Responsibility
CSRE 243C: People, Plants, and Medicine: Atlantic World Amerindian, African, and European Science (CSRE 443C, FEMGEN 443C, HISTORY 243C, HISTORY 343C, HISTORY 443C)
DANCE 121: Creative and Contemplative Movement: Intro to Qigong (LIFE 121)
DANCE 224: Physical Listening (SOMGEN 224)
DESIGN 265: Psychedelic Medicine by Design
ECON 126: Economics of Health and Medical Care (BIOMEDIN 156, BIOMEDIN 256, HRP 256)
ECON 127: Economics of Health Improvement in Developing Countries (HRP 227, MED 262)
EMED 122: BioSecurity and Pandemic Resilience (BIOE 122, EMED 222, PUBLPOL 122, PUBLPOL 222)
EMED 127: Health Care Leadership (EMED 227, PUBLPOL 127, PUBLPOL 227)
EMED 134: Climate Change, Toxins, and Health: From Education to Action (EMED 234)
ENGLISH 9CI: Inspired by Science: A Workshop "Oceans Edition"
ENGLISH 90WM: Writing Mystical, Spiritual, and Altered States: A Workshop
ENGLISH 185B: Mad Fiction: Literature of Mental Illness
EPI 238: Genes and Environment in Disease Causation: Implications for Medicine and Public Health (HUMBIO 159)
ETHICSOC 107: Rethinking Meat: An Introduction to Alternative Proteins (EARTHSYS 109, EARTHSYS 209, ESS 103, ESS 203)
FAMMED 201: Innovations in Patient and Family Centered Primary Care
FAMMED 210: The Healer's Art
FAMMED 213: Medical Tai Chi
FEMGEN 5C/105C: Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives (CSRE 5C, HISTORY 5C, INTNLREL 5C)
FEMGEN 44Q: Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, Engineering, and Environment (HISTORY 44Q)
FEMGEN 144: Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, Engineering, and Environment (HISTORY 144)
FEMGEN 150Q: Challenging Sex and Gender Dichotomies in Biology and Medicine (SOMGEN 150Q)
FRENCH 328: Literature, Narrative, and the Self
GERMAN 115: The Queer 20th Century: German (LGBTQ) Literature and Film
HISTORY 40: World History of Science: From Prehistory through the Scientific Revolution
HISOTRY 40S: The Mind's Not-So-New Science: Thinking About Thinking in the Modern World
HISTORY 44Q: Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, Engineering, and Environment
HISTORY 140: World History of Science: From Prehistory through the Scientific Revolution
HRP 243A: Health Policy Seminar
HRP 243B: Health Policy Seminar: Health Care
HUMBIO 3B: Health Policy Analysis and Population Health
HUMBIO 27: Traditional Chinese Medicine
HUMBIO 29: Introduction to Global Health
HUMBIO 57: Epidemic Intelligence: How to Identify, Investigate and Interrupt Outbreaks of Disease
HUMBIO 114: Global Change and Emerging Infectious Disease
HUMBIO 122: Beyond Health Care: The Effects of Social Policies on Health
HUMBIO 122A: Health Care Policy and Reform
HUMBIO 122E: Reducing Health Disparities and Closing the Achievement Gap Through Health Integration in Schools
HUMBIO 122H: Advancing Health Equity: Exploring Social Determinants of Health and Multi-Sector Solutions
HUMBIO 123E: Health Economics and Policy: Exploring Health Disparities, Child Health, and Health Care Spending
HUMBIO 124C: Global Child Health
HUMBIO 125: Current Topics and Controversies in Women's Health
HUMBIO 140: Sex and Gender in Human Physiology and Disease
HUMBIO 159: Genes and Environment in Disease Causation: Implications for Medicine and Public Health (EPI 238)
HUMBIO 163: The Opioid Epidemic: Using Neuroscience to Inform Policy and Law
HUMBIO 171E: Modern Ethical Challenges in Neuroscience and Organ Transplantation
HUMBIO 174: Foundations of Bioethics
ILAC 253: Losing My Mind: Madness, Race, and Gender in Latin America
JAPAN 191: Sharing Conversations Across Generations: The Magic of Haiku (ASNAMST 191, JAPAN 291)
LAW 809U: Policy Practicum: Climate and Rural Health
LIFE 53Q: Storytelling in Medicine (MED 53Q)
MED 53Q: Storytelling in Medicine
MED 54Q: Decolonizing Global Health
MED 73N: Scientific Method and Bias
MED 159: Oaxacan Health on Both Sides of the Border
MED 160: Physician Shadowing: Stanford Immersion in Medicine Series (SIMS)
MED 194: Critical Issues in Global Health
MED 242: Human Rights and Health
MED 256: Lasting Letters and the Art of Deep Listening (WELLNESS 256)
PHIL 167D: Philosophy of Neuroscience
PSYC 11Q: I Thought I Heard My Name... Destigmatizing in Psychosis
PSYC 21Q: How We Think as How We Feel: Cognitive and Emotional Influences on Mental Health
PSYC 215B: Introduction to Psychedelic Medicine
PSYC 216: Psychedelics and Social Justice
PSYC 216L: Psychedelics and Social Justice Lecture Series
PSYC 218: Psychedelic Medicine
PSYC 233: Mindfulness: An Awareness-Based Stress Reduction Program in Medicine
PSYCH 20N: How Beliefs Create Reality
PSYCH 28N: The Cultural Shaping of Emotion (CSRE 28N)
PSYCH 101: Community Health Psychology
PSYCH 215: Mind, Culture, and Society
PSYCH 245A: Understanding Racial and Ethnic Identity Development
PUBLPOL 122: BioSecurity and Pandemic Resilience
PUBLPOL 156: Health Care Policy and Reform
PUBLPOL 183: Human and Planetary Health
PWR 1LF: Writing & Rhetoric 1: #NoBodyIsDisposable: The Rhetoric of Disability
PWR 1TD: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Anatomy of a Discipline: Rhetorics of Health, Illness, and Medicine
PWR 2SPB: Writing & Rhetoric 2: Hope, Health, and Healing: The Rhetoric of Medicine
RELIGST 10N: The Good Death
SOMGEN 130: Sexual Diversity and Function Across Medical Disciplines
SOMGEN 140Q: The Beginning: The Brain, the Womb, and the Elusive Definition of Life
SOMGEN 150Q: Challenging Sex and Gender Dichotomies in Biology and Medicine
SOMGEN 203: Literature and Writing for Military Affiliated Students
SOMGEN 206: Global Medical Issues Affecting Women (FEMGEN 206)
SOMGEN 207: Theories of Change in Global Health (INTLPOL 291, PUBLPOL 291)
SOMGEN 213: The Art of Observation: Enhancing Clinical Skills Through Visual Analysis
STS 115: The Ethics of Innovative Life-Saving Technologies for Children with Heart Disease
STS 200W: Are We Really All Cyborgs?: Bodies as Technoscience
SURG 143: Anatomy for Artists