FREN 3525

Bodies in Medicine

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2024-2025 Catalog.

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 constituting 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.

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

Language Requirement Satisfies Option 1.

Distribution Category (ALC-AS) (CA-AG, FL-AG, LA-AG)

When Offered Fall.

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