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Health Humanities

Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

»Health Humanities Minor

Health Humanities explores the human condition of health from a variety of critical and creative perspectives. Health Humanities students are prepared for careers throughout the healthcare industry as well as in policy, administration, education, arts, and advocacy where health and health policy play a role. Each student has the opportunity to chart a path through the minor coursework that supports their intellectual curiosity, professional goals, and personal wellbeing.

Core courses are grounded in the humanities, whereas electives draw not only from the humanities but also from the arts, social sciences, and natural sciences so that the Health Humanities minor complements any undergraduate major and ensures that students build a complex understanding of what it means to be well in physical, mental, social, and cultural contexts.

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Director: Dr. Kirsten Moore-Sheeley

moore-sheeleyKirsten Moore-Sheeley received her PhD in the history of medicine, specializing in the history of global health and disease control in Africa. Her research interests include the history of biomedicine and biomedical technologies, disease ecologies, and the intersection of poverty and health. Her first book, Nothing But Nets: A Biography of Global Health Science and Its Objects (JHU Press, 2023) reflects these interests as it explores how and why insecticide-treated bed nets became a main method of malaria control in the 21st century. Her current book project builds from this work to look at the history of malaria vaccine research and other efforts to develop vaccines for 'diseases of poverty'. She teaches courses in the health humanities and environmental studies, with an emphasis on global histories of medicine, science, technology, and the environment. 

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Julia Ainley
Administrative Assistant
(714) 532-6026
ainley@chapman.edu

Dr. Kirsten Moore-Sheeley
Program Director
mooresheeley@chapman.edu