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Amidst unprecedented technological and data-driven innovation in healthcare, the Rice Medical Humanities Research Institute will work to ensure that patients are seen as people in the context of healing. We will work to make healthcare more equitable and inclusive, so that marginalized communities receive the care they need, in a respectful and dignified form. We will achieve these aims by bringing humanists, artists, and social scientists together with engineers, natural scientists and clinicians to address major global challenges that cannot be solved by science or technology alone.
The Medical Humanities Research Institute will leverage the program’s existing networks to create multi-tiered translational research clusters that build on our research strengths in arts-based approaches to care, health data and technology justice, the construction and representation of patient narratives, and bioethics.
SAWYER SEMINAR SERIES
Reimagining Technologies of Care: Racial Health Equity and Data Justice
The Medical Humanities Research Institute at Rice University invites you to join us for a new lecture series. The Sawyer Seminar on "Reimagining Technologies of Care" brings key insights and methodologies of the humanities into the analysis, creation and use of healthcare technologies and health datasets. We will examine the current state of healthcare through multiple disciplinary lenses to ask how we might learn from the past to imagine and create better, more equitable futures.
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Moving human flourishing to the center of health and care
Learn more about Rice's Medical Humanities Research Institute and the work that we do in bringing together humanists, artists, social scientists with engineers, natural scientists, and clinicians to address healthcare challenges that cannot be solved by science or technology alone.