Margaret M. Quinlan
Margaret M. Quinlan
Director, Health & Medical Humanities Program, Full Professor, COMM
Communication Studies
Colvard 5003
Dr. Quinlan is honored to serve as the Director of the Health & Medical Humanities program at UNC Charlotte. Her research and teaching explore how communication creates, resists and transforms knowledges about health. She examines the nexus of public perceptions of medicine, science, and technology, both historically and presently. She investigates the role communication plays in public understandings of medical expertise, illness, wellness, caring, treatment, health, and healing.
Review Dr. Quinlan’s Curriculum Vitae
Research Interests
- Health, Organizational and Performative Communication
- Ethnography, Narrative/Interpretive/Rhetorical Analyses
- Reproductive Health
- Social Media, Medical Expertise, Motherhood
- Public Perception
- Practitioner-patient communication
- Communication Theory
- Interpersonal Health Communication
- Health & Media
HHUM Electives
- COMM 3115: Health Communication
- HHUM 3020/COMM 3051/COMM 3052: Health & Media, Topics in Health & Medical Humanities
HHUM Core Course
- HHUM 4800: Health & Medical Humanities Capstone