Welcome - Literature, Health and Healing
ENGL 2030 Literature, Health and Healing
CREDIT HOURS: 3
This class explores selected literary texts (chiefly contemporary) dealing with health and healing and introduces students to key concepts and issues in the interdisciplinary field of medical humanities. Topics vary depending upon the instructor, but might include the role of narrative or story-telling in medicine and the health professions; illness memoirs (for example, cancer narratives or memoirs about mental illness); ethics and communications in health care; literary representations of health professionals; therapeutic uses of literature; indigenous healing practices; social and cultural determinants of health; and literary representations of topics such as anorexia, autism, disabilities, aging, trauma and recovery, chronic pain, communicable diseases, neurological disorders, and issues in sexual and reproductive health.
FORMAT:
PREREQUISITES: Completion of 6.0 credit hours at the 1000
level in ENGL, CRWR, KING or PERF
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