| Title: | Medical Humanities |
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| Course Section Number: | ENG-180-01 |
| Department: | English |
| Description: | Studies show that reading poetry and fiction about illness helps both doctors and patients. More and more medical schools in the U.S. require a "Narrative Medicine" course, recognizing that language has the capacity to comfort us in times of need. How do writers, poets, filmmakers, visual artists, and historians portray the sick? What social, cultural, psychological, and medical issues do they raise in these portrayals? We will read, watch, and discuss creative depictions of AIDS, Covid 19, Chagas disease, and other conditions as well as texts about mental health. How have societies around the world classified sickness and how have they treated bodies and minds that are unwell? How have communities of color, women, and LGBTQ patients described their hospitalizations and diagnoses? This is an interdisciplinary class that includes literary analysis, philosophy, history, political science, global health, epidemiology, and other disciplines. The class will host visiting speakers. It will also have a significant community engagement component. |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| Start Date: | August 26, 2026 |
| End Date: | December 19, 2026 |
| Meeting Information: |
08/26/2026-12/18/2026 Lecture Monday, Wednesday, Friday 11:00AM - 11:50AM, Room to be Announced
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| Faculty: | Szczeszak-Brewer, Agata |
Course Status & Cross-Listings
| Cross-list Group Capacity: | 20 |
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| Cross-list Group Student Count: | 0 |
| Calculated Course Status: | OPEN |
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