Topics in Cultural Studies - Literature, Medicine, & the Body

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Course Title

Topics in Cultural Studies - Literature, Medicine, & the Body

Course Description

Literature and medicine share an intense interest in the human experience of being embodied and in deciphering the meaning of different types of bodily experiences. In this course we will look at the intersecting and contradictory ways the two fields represent and interpret these experiences— and the ways different bodies resist and rewrite literary, medical, and cultural narratives.

Course Level

Undergraduate (BA, BS)

Instructor Name

Rosemary Weatherston

Course Topics

Body/Embodiment
Disability/Ableism
Disease/Illness
Diversity
Equity and Inclusion
Empathy/Compassion/Trust
Epidemics/Pandemics
Graphic Medicine
Health Professions Education
Illness Experience/Patient Narratives
Literature/Poetry/Creative Writing
Media Studies
Mental Health
Narrative medicine
Pain/Suffering
Patient-provider relations
Prejudice/ Discrimination/Bias/Stigma/Stereotyping
Social justice

Disciplinary Perspectives

American Studies
English
Literature/Literary Studies
Rhetoric

Geographic Location

Detroit, MI

Instructional Modality

online synchronous
online asynchronous

Institutional Location

University of Detroit Mercy

Title

ENL 3530: Topics in Cultural Studies - Literature, Medicine, & the Body