Story of an Illness: Literature and Medicine - Honors

Catalog description

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. Graded on A-F basis only. Credit Hour s : 3 Prerequisites: Honors eligibility required Recommended: ENGLSH 1000