Research Methods in Health Humanities

This field-defining volume surveys the diverse and unique research methods used by scholars in the growing, transdisciplinary field of health humanities. Appropriate for advanced undergraduates, but nuanced enough to engage more seasoned students and scholars, this volume is an essential teaching and reference tool for health humanities teachers and scholars.

Craig Klugman, Ph.D., is Professor of Bioethics and Health Humanities at DePaul University. He serves on the ethics committee at Northwestern University Hospital. He is the author of over 450 articles, book chapters, op-eds, and blog posts on such topics as bioethics, digital medicine, professionalism, end-of-life issues, public health ethics, research ethics, education, health/medical humanities, ethics of execution, and health policy. He is the blog editor and frequent writer for bioethics.net as well as creator of the BioethicsTV column. Dr. Klugman is the editor of several books including Research Methods in the Health Humanities (Oxford University Press, 2019), Medical Ethics (Gale Cengage, 2016), and Ethical Issues in Rural Health (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013; 2008). He has been interviewed for The New York Times, AARP News, Nightline, Vice, and national radio. Besides numerous academic journals, his writing has appeared in Pacific Standard Magazine, Huffington Post, LifeMattersMedia, Chicago Tribune, Medium, Cato Unbound, The Hill, San Francisco Chronicle, and the Houston Chronicle.


Erin Gentry Lamb, Ph.D., is Herbert L. and Pauline Wentz Andrews Professor of Biomedical Humanities and Director of the Center for Literature and Medicine at Hiram College in Ohio. Her research interests focus on the social and ethical consequences of anti-aging consumer culture and medicine, ageism, the connections between age studies and disability studies, and the pedagogy of health humanities and age studies, including co-authoring a comprehensive report on Health Humanities Baccalaureate Programs in the United States and co-editing a special issue of The Journal of Medical Humanities focused on "Pre-Health Humanities" (2017). Her scholarly work has appeared in The Health and Humanities Reader, The Journal of Medical Humanities, The International Journal of Aging and Society, and Age, Culture, Humanities. A founding member of the North American Network in Aging Studies, she serves on the executive committee of the MLA's Forum on Medical Humanities and Health Studies.