Engaged Literary Studies: Bridging Literature and Medicine
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In recent years, the global academic community has placed a growing emphasis on medical humanities studies. Starting with integrating humanistic perspectives into medical education, medical humanities has developed into a remarkably forward-looking interdisciplinary field, where humanities scholars can actively contribute to the understanding of health sciences, supporting the goal of shaping society through literature. In 2018 the Ministry of Science and Technology funded a project entitled “Engaged Literary Studies: Interdisciplinary Research in Medical Humanities,” headed by Pin-chia Feng, Lifetime Chair Professor of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University. By publishing scholarly essays and books and organizing academic events, the project has successfully encouraged literary scholars, especially junior scholars, to engage in this promising research field