About Health Humanities

The UCSF Center for Health Humanities supports projects with a mission to enhance our understanding of the human response to disease and suffering, to deepen the interpretive skills of health professionals, to situate medicine in its broader social and cultural context, and to improve the delivery of health care.

Zakheim Murals, Biddy Mason Panel
A selection from The History of Medicine in California by Bernard Zakheim, a collection of murals that decorated the old UC Hall amphitheater and whose creators hoped would strengthen bonds between medicine and art.