FGSS 4020

Reading the Body in Medicine and Fiction

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2021-2022.

This course examines how modern Spanish writers and doctors represented the human body as they grappled with disease and disability. Reading fiction alongside medical and anthropological texts we will examine notions of the normal/abnormal, beautiful/ugly/ and healthy/infected as they change over time. We also look at the ways in which these concepts are inflected by other identity categories such as gender, race, sexuality, and class.

When Offered Spring.

Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: SPAN 2180, or CASE Q++, or permission of instructor required.

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

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