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Campus | Bryn Mawr |
Semester | Fall 2023 |
Registration ID | ANTHB357001 |
Course Title | Narratives: Illness & Medicine |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | Health Studies |
Instructor | Pashigian,Melissa |
Times and Days | F 01:10pm-03:30pm
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Room Location | DAL2 |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2567 This course will explore the construction of narratives around illness, healing, and medicine cross-culturally and across a variety of media including through graphic novels, video drama series, primary source diaries, audio accounts, and anthropological texts. Illness narratives have figured prominently in the study and practice of medical anthropology, and increasingly in the teaching of medicine. We will ask: What is the role of illness narratives in the healing process for patients, healers, and caregivers in cross-cultural comparison? How can illness narratives destabilize dominant discourses, and provide an avenue of expression for those who are unable to easily speak or be heard, particularly in biomedical contexts? Who gets to speak, in what ways, and who remains unheard? What does it mean to tell a story of illness? What roles do illness stories play in illuminating and complicating understandings of illness, disability, trauma, and caregiving? How do illness narratives relate to suffering, hope, and healing, and how they differ for chronic or terminal illness? What do they tell us about making and remaking the self? Students will have the opportunity to explore frameworks and cross-cultural experiences through media beyond standard text. Prerequisite: ANTH B102 or permission of instructor. Approach: Course does not meet an Approach; Enrollment Cap: 15; 3 Postbac Spaces Reserved: If the course exceeds the enrollment cap the following criteria will be used for the lottery: ANTH Major/Minor by class (senior then junior), then Sophomore, then Junior, then Senior. ANTH 102 recommended |
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