Health

Explore how arts and humanities research uses methods including archival research and philosophical enquiry to investigate health, disability, healthcare and responsibility.

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Research across the arts and humanities brings new perspectives to questions about health, healthcare and disability. Methods including archival research and philosophical enquiry can uncover overlooked experiences, challenge assumptions and explore how ideas about health and responsibility have developed and continue to shape healthcare today.

Dr Esme Cleall

Dr Esme Cleall explains how archival research can be used to reconstruct experiences of disability and uncover assumptions embedded in historical records.

Dr Ben Davies

Dr Ben Davies explores how philosophical enquiry can challenge assumptions and open up new ways of thinking about ethics, responsibility and healthcare.

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