International Health Humanities Network Membership

Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu

Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu EdD is consulting professor in the Stanford University School of Medicine and affiliated faculty in the Program in Arts, Humanities, and Medicine. He teaches an undergraduate course: Culture, Narrative and Medicine that examines health humanities and social sciences from a multicultural perspective. His writing appears in various journals, blogs and books, including Multicultural Encounters (2002), When Half is Whole (2012), and Synergy, Healing and Empowerment (2012). He received a doctorate in Counseling and Consulting Psychology from Harvard University and was professor of education at the University of Tokyo.

Humanities Subjects

  • Narrative
  • Storytelling

Health Care Areas

  • Counselling
  • Health care professional
  • Health education
  • Healthy communities
  • Mental health
  • Psychology

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