Medical humanities: An alliance or an aberration?

Sarangi, Srikant 2026. Medical humanities: An alliance or an aberration? Communication & Medicine , e20250038. 10.3138/commed-2025-0038

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Abstract

In this forum discussion piece, I first delineate the many contours of the label “medical humanities.” In readily acknowledging its interdisciplinary makeup, I then attempt to cover two ends of the spectrum as signaled in the title—at one end, a case is made for humanities and medicine as being synergistic and forging an alliance; at the other end lies a fundamental critique that medicine and humanities are incompatible and even an aberration. For the most part, I position myself in the alliance camp. Although the dominant trend is to approach the topic of medical humanities from philosophical, moral, and ethical angles, given my own disciplinary background in communication and discourse studies, the bulk of my discussion relates to the adoption of a communication compass on medical humanities.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	In Press
Schools:	Schools > English, Communication and Philosophy
Additional Information:	RRS applied 17/04/2026 AB
Publisher:	University of Toronto Press
ISSN:	1612-1783
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	17 April 2026
Date of Acceptance:	6 February 2026
Last Modified:	03 Aug 2026 13:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/186324

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