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Apr 18, 2024
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ENGL 235 - Literature and Medicine 3 Credit Hours
How can the study of literature help us better understand the experience of illness or the practice of medicine? Students will consider the artistic challenges inherent in representing pain, analyze the cultural contexts surrounding narratives of sickness and health, and explore what the literary imagination has to offer medicine through close readings of works in multiple genres. We will pay particularly close attention to the ways in which works of literature have addressed health disparities and have contributed to political, social, and cultural change. The course adopts a health justice approach, which understands sickness and health as existing within larger, intersecting contexts of race, gender, disability, and economic status.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 or CRWS 101 or equivalent.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in literature.
This course will satisfy the core requirement in multicultural studies.
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