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This accolade celebrates the team's interdisciplinary and collaborative approach to health and medicine.
MedHum, based at TORCH (The Oxford Centre for the Humanities), supports the humanities and social science led research on health and medicine. It highlights the contribution of the humanities to a proper understanding of health, disease, and medicine.
The work of MedHum challenges the assumption that cutting-edge medical research and innovation in healthcare are solely the domain of physicians and laboratories. As Christine Gerrard, Director of TORCH, stated: ‘MedHum provides a radical corrective to the common assumption that cutting-edge research and innovation in healthcare and medical treatments lie solely within the domain of physicians and laboratories.’
Ashok Handa, Professor of Vascular Surgery and Director of Teaching in Surgery at the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, serves as the only surgeon on the Medical Humanities Steering Group with expertise in values-based practice and shared decision making.
The Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences congratulates Professor Handa and his colleagues on receiving this well-deserved recognition.
To learn more about MedHum, visit the TORCH website.