FREN 3525

Bodies in Medicine

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2023-2024. Courses of Study 2024-2025 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

Literature offers valuable perspectives on medicine and the human body that help us focus on the humanity of the individual who is the object of medical interventions. This focus often occurs as a result of carefully chosen languages that can be seen as consulting a poetics of the body. In this course, we will examine the poetics of the body in a range of literary, philosophical, and scientific works. We will explore how literary authors revise or rework medical representations of the body and of the individual in order to evoke the value and complexity of the human body.

When Offered Fall.

Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: FREN 2310 or permission of instructor.

Distribution Category (ALC-AS)
Language Requirement Satisfies Option 1.

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