Course details

Name: ENWR - 250

Title: Special Topics: Writing and Rhetoric in Illness and Medicine

Section: 01

Semester: Summer - 2015

Credits: 3

Description:
This course takes as its focus the relationship between writing, language, and the body in illness. We will explore the linguistic work of making sense--in writing and in talk--of bodily transformation, of patient and doctor communication, and of scientific knowledge as it manifests in lived, human experience. Recent disciplinary developments in "narrative medicine" and "medical humanities" inform the work of this course, and will allow us to read across a range of relevant genres. However, our focus will be primarily a rhetorical one, geared towards understanding how and why words function so essentially (and sometimes so impossibly) in the struggle to understand the materiality of illness and medicine. This course will also engage students in their own exploratory and analytical writing work, offering opportunities to consider intersections between lived, human realities and the sometimes disparate language of medicine, diagnosis, and treatment.

Last updated on 2015-03-02 By Restaino Jessica (restainoj)

Schedule: Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday From 12:30 am To 3:45 am

Graduation requirements:

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• Women and Gender Studies (3c)
• Class Issues (3d)

Teaching Faculty: Restaino Jessica (restainoj)

Is course canceled: No