Gretchen A. Case, PhD

Program Chief, Medical Ethics and Humanities

Research Interests

  • Communication Methods, Total
  • Teaching and Curriculum Development
  • Medicine in Literature
  • Humanities
  • Education, Medical, Undergraduate
  • Education, Medical, Graduate
  • Education, Premedical
  • Students, Premedical
  • Students, Medical

Languages

  • English

Academic Information

  • Departments: Internal Medicine - Associate Professor (Lecturer)
  • Divisions: General Internal Medicine

Academic Office Information

  • 801-585-9766
  • School of Medicine
    Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities
    30 N 1900 E, Room: AB 312
    Salt Lake City, UT 84132

Academic Bio

Gretchen A. Case is Associate Professor in the Program in Medical Ethics and Humanities, the Department of Internal Medicine, and the Department of Pediatrics. She is the Chief of the Program in Medical Ethics and Humanities. She received a BA in Speech Communication and History and an MA in Communication Studies from UNC-Chapel Hill and a PhD in Performance Studies from UC, Berkeley.

Dr. Case's research and teaching interests are in the medical humanities (aka healthcare humanities): the many ways in which the arts and humanities intersect with the medical arts and sciences. Her scholarly projects often combine communication, performance, disability theory, cultures of medicine, oral history, and ethnography. Dr. Case also has more than ten years of experience as a public historian, specializing in histories of science and medicine.

In addition to teaching at the School of Medicine, Dr. Case has taught in the Department of Theatre at the University and is a facilitator for the Physicians’ Literature and Medicine reading group. She currently leads the Literature and Medicine Affinity Group of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities.

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