Bagshaw, Chair and Professor, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta and Alberta Health Services Erika Dyck, Professor and Canada Research Chair in the History of Health and Social Justice, Department of History, University of Saskatchewan Maya J. [...] In the meantime, the people-centered focus of the Humanities—languages, cultural works, oral histories, traditions, and local histories of community building and other institutional structures—creates a more nuanced picture of those that the healthcare system and researchers The Humanities and Academic are seeking to better serve through patient- and Disciplines community-centered approaches, as w. [...] Humanities research can be of service to public health practitioners and policy developers because of the field’s emphasis on deep social, political, and cultural context, the importance of “patient” and community histories, close attention to the processes, successes, and failures of past decision-making, and how the past flows into and shapes the present (e.g., Hinchliffe et al., 2018). [...] The role of the Humanities in various critical interdisciplinary “studies”—Gender Studies, Disability Studies, Critical Race Studies—speaks to the importance of history, culture, and language as both the context for, and the medium of, the representation of historically marginalized groups. [...] One of the lessons of COVID-19 is the need to reignite the conversation about integrating the Humanities better into health research and health systems, including Humanities knowledge of our values and our pasts, understanding of the cultural forces that maintain inequities, and ability to analyze how we discuss and understand health.
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