UTLIT 200 Global Medical Stories

This course examines the ways that practitioners and patients from around the world narrativize medical conditions, health treatments, and the body. Our emphasis on medicine and the body not as static and known entities but as things that require “understanding,” in the senses that they both necessitate interpretation and should be approached compassionately. Our texts will include everything from medical memoirs, to ethnographies, to fiction. We will consider such questions as: How do public and personal interpretations of health impact wellbeing? How do understandings of health differ globally? And, how are health practices nationalized, gendered, and racialized?

Baccalaureate Experience

(HFA)(W)(IG)

Spartan Studies

Core Humanities

Credits

4

Prerequisite

Prerequisite or concurrent with AWR 201.

Offered

Fall, Spring