HUMSC 490Great Dialogues: Medical Humanities on Health and Life
- Units
- 0.50
- Faculty
- Arts
- Subject
- Human Sciences
When it runs
- F24
- W25
- S25
- F25
- W26
- S26
- F26
- W27
- S27
Ran in 0 of the last 7 terms. Winter 2027: not on the schedule. Spring 2027: schedule not out yet.
What is the relationship of health to life? This course will focus on identifying areas of strain or conflict in public health and everyday life in relation to tensions connected to models of health and sickness. It will examine contested representations of the relations of health and life, healing and cure, pleasure and pain, self-governance and negligence, body and mind, and policy and polity. Core texts will span a wide variety of fields, eras, and authors (e.g., Plato, Descartes, Freud, Parsons, Foucault, Gadamer, Garfinkel).
Prerequisites
- Complete all of the following
- Earned at least 0.50 units from HUMSC
- Students must be in level 3A or higher
Antirequisites
None listed.
Leads to
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