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Aug 31, 2025
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Fall 2025 Health Sciences Catalog
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HCB 501 - Compassionate Care, Medical Humanities, and the Illness Experience
This course will introduce students to major interpretations of the illness experience, to several classical biographical and autobiographical accounts of illness, and to the important dynamic of compassionate care in the healing relationship. The patient-as-person will be emphasized throughout, as well as the ways in which respect for and empathy toward the patient impacts diagnostic accuracy, patient adherence, and patient and professional satisfaction. Some emotional dynamics of the illness experience will be addressed, such as hope, through the work of eminent physician-writers such as Jerome Groopman, MD. The dynamics of medical mistakes and forgiveness will be explored through psychiatrist Aaron Lazarre’s influential writings on effective medical apologies. Some philosophical and metaphysical aspects of personhood and self-identity will be introduced.
3 credits
Grading Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)
Offered Offered in Fall
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