Story of an Illness: Literature and Medicine

Catalog description

(same as LG_LT_CT 2105 ). Uses imaginative literature to complicate the question "What is medicine?" by exploring the ways in which medical matters are also stories. Students will read both medical histories and literary representations of health and illness through narrative medicine to critically examine the connections between medical stories and the broader culture. Credit Hour s : 3 Recommended: ENGLSH 1000