Health, Advocacy, Storytelling

Catalog description

We read memoir, novels, poems, creative nonfiction, and films in order to explore how race, class, gender, sexuality, and disability are depicted through the writing of caregivers, medical professionals, and patients. The course focuses on how cultural differences affect access to medical care and how illness and health are narrated depending on the writer's intersectional position. Mental health diagnoses, addiction, chronic illness, and trauma may also be explored.