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MH Conversations and Connections Series – Lunchtime Seminar
Title: Ways of Knowing: How the Multidisciplinary Field of Health Humanities Enlightens the Human Experience of Healthcare
Date: 14 May 2026 (Thursday)
Time: 12:30 – 1:45 pm HKT
Venue: Faculty Board Room, 1/F, Daniel & Mayce Yu Administration Wing, LKS Faculty of Medicine, 21 Sassoon Road
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Abstract:
Health Humanities, and the multitude of disciplines which the field includes, offers vital tools for us to better understand the human experiences and interactions at the core of healthcare.
A variety of disciplines, such as anthropology, literature studies, and the creative arts, can be housed under the big tent of health humanities. The basic nature of health and healthcare involves us as embodied, mortal humans, whether we are patients, health professionals, educators, or family. The value of these disciplines to provide unique perspectives on the human condition only grows as medicine becomes more technical, scientifically advanced, and complex. This talk examines how the many ways of knowing which health humanities celebrates and complicates enables a deeper and broader understanding of the human experience of health and healthcare.
Speaker:
Prof Audrey Shafer
Professor Emerita of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine
Bio:
Audrey Shafer, MD is Professor Emeritum of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine / Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System; founder, Stanford Medicine & the Muse Program at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics; founder, Biomedical Ethics and Medical Humanities Scholarly Concentration; co-founder of Pegasus Physician Writers, and co-founder of the Stanford undergraduate minor in Medical Humanities. She is the author of The Mailbox, a children’s novel on posttraumatic stress disorder in veterans. Her poetry has been published in journals and anthologies.
Welcome to join us!
Enquiry: Please contact Mr Edison Cheng (mehu@hku.hk).