The University of Louisville is now accepting applications for its brand-new MA program in Bioethics and the Medical Humanities.
Here's an excerpt about the program:
The program will enhance graduates’ contextual experience within their primary professional field, for example, law, philosophy, medicine, nursing, dentistry, religious studies, public health, health administration, or veterinary medicine. Degree holders may participate in hospital ethics committees, teach medical ethics and humanities, understand the interaction of religion/spirituality and medicine, or be equipped to interpret issues in bioethics to the general public and the media.
I've mentioned several times on this blog the humanist tradition of using theory to guide moment-to-moment practice; in some ways the medieval and Renaissance humanists were early translational researchers and scholars. Hence I particularly like this paragraph from the UL program description:
Those students entering the program with a theoretical base will gain the tools to apply theory to real-world problems. Those entering with hands-on experience will gain the theoretical underpinnings for careful analysis of real-world problems.
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