COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally altered how many of us live our lives. It is as much a medical and public health crisis as it is a cultural and moral one, leading us to ask new questions about how we ought to relate to one another, how and where to work or raise families, how we socialize, how pandemics disproportionately impact some communities over others, and how we understand the relationship between politics and health.

The Health Humanities Project aims to support teaching and research on this crisis in the realms of health, society, and culture. We want to start by amplifying a number of excellent resources that have already become available, including:

• Buddhism in the Pandemic, a webinar and repository of resources by The Jivaka Project
• Humanities Coronavirus Syllabus, edited by colleagues at Northeastern University
• Social Science Coronavirus Syllabus 
• Harvard COVID-19 Research Guide for social scientists
• Histories of Epidemic Disease Microsyllabus by Michael G. Vann for The Abusable Past
• Pandemic Syllabus by David Barnes, Merlin Chowkwanyun & Kavita Sivaramakrishnan from Public Books
• Virtual roundtables about the history of epidemics from the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine
• COVID Racial Data Tracker, collaboration between the COVID Tracking Project and the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research
• CORONA Guidance, a database for comparative study of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish responses to the pandemic
• Pandemic, Creating a Usable Past: Epidemic History, COVID-19, and the Future of Health, a series of historically focused webinars
• Pandemic, Religion, and Public Life, series of essays at the Immanent Frame
• Syllabus: A History of Anti-Black Racism in Medicine, a reading list on the historical legacies of racism and racism in medicine