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MEDICAL HUMANITIES (L85) (Dept. Info)

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Biomedical Ethics

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Sex in Italian Culture and Media

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From the 19th century hotbed of sexual tourism to the 21st century idyllic scenario of Guadagnino's steamy romance "Call Me by Your Name," Italy has been cast globally as an imaginary site of sexual freedom. Discourses on sexuality started proliferating in the late 19th century thanks to accounts of medical doctors and anthropologists (i.e. Lombroso, Mantegazza) who wished to contain the Italian vice. Later on, due to the Fascist obsession for sexual surveillance, male homosexuals, deemed unhealthy citizens, were pathologized and sent to confinement. Yet, with the early 60s when the Kinsey's report made it to Italy along with the Italian appeal for the "dolce vita", a new sexual freedom converted "early perversions" into "pleasant diversions", and pathology into diversity. Between the early 70s and the first Rome Pride in 2000, an Italian movement of sexual activism - featuring activists, writers, and artists - have impacted and reshaped globally the ways in which we experience and talk about sex, bodies and desires nowadays. How do we think, represent, and talk sex in Italian culture? How have race and gender shifted understandings of sexuality from pathology to diversity in Italian culture and society? This course invites students to explore and analyze a number of Italian cultural productions on sexuality. The material selected includes medical accounts, sexual health articles, fictions on abortion, feminist manifestos, documentaries and movies - spanning post-Unification and Fascist Italy, post-war sex education, and 1970s queer feminist activism, 1980s AIDS reports and fiction, and the transgender movement. The class is taught in English.

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Philosophy of Medicine

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Medicine is an institution that enjoys considerable social authority, an occupation that enjoys enduring prestige, and a research area that enjoys substantial public and private funding. Philosophy of medicine is an investigation into what we know about medicine and public health, and how we know it. What is medical knowledge, and where does it come from? What counts as good evidence that treatments are safe and effective, or that environmental pollutants harm health? How should we understand the concepts of health and disease, or decide what counts as a legitimate medical or psychiatric condition - and who are "we" to decide? How do concepts, methods, and findings in the health sciences influence, and/or reflect, industry, activist, public, patients' and policymakers' values? The overall goal of the course is to develop a habit of reasoned, reflective engagement with research and practice in medicine. Students do not need a background in philosophy to take this course. This course is intended to be of special interest to pre-health professionals and to philosophy and science majors. For graduate students in philosophy, this course satisfies the seminar requirement. Students do not need a background in philosophy to take this course. This course is intended to be of special interest to pre-health professionals and to philosophy and science majors. For graduate students in philosophy, this course satisfies the seminar requirement. Extra assignments will be provided to satisfy graduate course work; students should consult the instructor for details.

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Making Sex and Gender: Understanding the History of the Body

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Humors, Pox, and Plague: Medieval and Early Modern Medicine

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This course examines how people thought about, experienced, and managed disease in the medieval and early modern periods. Students will consider developments in learned medicine alongside the activities of a diverse range of practitioners-e.g. surgeons, empirics, quacks, midwives, saints, and local healers-involved in the business of curing a wide range of ailments. Significant attention will be paid to the experiences of patients and the social and cultural significance of disease. Major topics include: the rise and fall of humoral medicine; religious explanations of illness; diseases such as leprosy, syphilis, and plague; the rise of anatomy; herbs and pharmaceuticals; the experience of childbirth; and the emergence of identifiably "modern" institutions such as hospitals, the medical profession, and public health. The focus will be on Western Europe but we'll also consider developments in the Islamic world and the Americas.

A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM CFH: MH EN: H

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Advanced Medical French

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In this introductory course to the "Français Professionnel de la Santé" track (French for Medical Professionals), students will be exposed to medical terminology and practices as well as to health-related issues in France and the Francophone world (Quebec, Haiti, West and North Africa). Using an interactive approach based on real life situations, students will learn to perform various medical tasks such as writing a prescription, advising a patient, or presenting a humanitarian project to potential donors. Medical vocabulary and pre-professional oral and written expression will be enhanced throughout the course. Students will acquire the necessary tools to perform their tasks, preparing them for further coursework in the FPS track, the Diplôme de français professionnel de la santé, and the France for the Pre-Med study abroad program in Nice. This section of Medical French for Spring 2025 is for students who have already completed one or more French courses at the 300 level.Priority given to those students pursuing the French for Medical Professionals opportunity. Prerequisite: Fr 307D 3 units.

A&S IQ: HUM, LCD, LS Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: BA, IS EN: H

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The Racial and Sexual Politics of Public Health

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Race and sexuality have long been concerns of public health. From hygienic campaigns against Mexican immigrants in early-1900s California to the 1991 quarantine of Haitian refugees with HIV at Guantanamo Bay, race and sexuality have proven crucial to how society identifies health and, by extension, determines who is fit to be a citizen. This interdisciplinary course interrogates the intersections of race, sexuality, and medicine, discussing how each domain has been constitutive of the other in the American context. Via feminist and queer theorizing, we will examine the political and economic factors under which diseases, illnesses, and health campaigns have impacted racial and sexual minorities over the last two centuries. An orienting question for the course is the following: How has the state wielded public health as a regulatory site to legitimatize perceived racial differences and to regulate ostensible sexual deviations? Through primary and secondary sources, we will likewise explore the various forms of "health activism" undertaken by these very same targeted populations. Themes to be addressed will include the medicalization of racial and sexual difference; activism both in and against health institutions; and the roles of race, class, gender, sexuality, and disability in contemporary health issues. Case studies include the Tuskegee syphilis experiment; the sterilization of black, Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Native American women; the medicalization of homosexuality during the Cold War; and the role of mass incarceration in the diffusion of HIV. At a moment in time when access to health continues to be shaped by categories of social difference, understanding the role of public health in the normalization and subversion of racial and sexual hierarchies in the West is more pertinent than ever.

A&S IQ: SC, SSC Arch: SEP, SSC Art: SSC BU: BA EN: S

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Medical Spanish

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This course surveys the interdisciplinary field of trans studies by emphasizing how trans identities, activism, and scholarship are intertwined with broader histories of gender, sexuality, race, disability, and class. Students will explore the vibrant intellectual, political, and cultural productions of trans people. The primary geographic focus for the course is the United States, but we will situate U.S. trans studies within broader conversations about gender variance transnationally. While attention will be paid to understanding how transphobia operates, the course emphasizes thinking through the possibilities afforded by trans histories of resistance and refusal.

A&S IQ: HUM, SC, SD Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: BA CFH: MH EN: H

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Disability, Quality of Life & Community Responsibility

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The increasing prevalence of disability presents major challenges for American society. Social participation can be a challenge for people with disabilities, while resources to address these needs tend to be limited. This course will begin by critically analyzing concepts of disability, Quality of Life, health and social participation. We will construct a framework for examining social participation and community resources across the lifespan. Public health, educational and environmental theories and methods will be applied to programs and services that aim to enhance quality of life with disabilities. We will analyze ecological approaches to enhancing social participation. Upon completion of this course, students will be equipped to analyze challenges and prioritize resources for individual and population health.

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Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine

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What is Medical Humanities?

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What is medical humanities? What are its core questions and methods? When and how did the field emerge? To whom does it matter and why? These questions will ground our exploration of recent work in medical humanities. We begin with readings chosen by the instructor to illuminate various humanistic methods (e.g., historical, literary, philosophical) and their approach to recurrent topics and problems in the field (e.g., the doctor-patient relationship, illness as experience, the social construction of disease, health inequality, medicalization). In the second part of the course, students will be guided in co-writing and co-teaching the rest of the syllabus. Students will finish the class able to provide their own definition of medical humanities and to explain the field's origins and concerns as well as why and to whom the field matters. Enrollment preference will be given to students who have already declared the minor in medical humanities.

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Healing and Social Justice

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What makes activism sustainable and accessible? Not just ideologically or politically, but physically, emotionally, and some would ask, spiritually? How do actors in social justice movements enact care for movement survival? Conversely, when might care serve to depoliticize or otherwise undermine political action? How do race, gender, sexuality, class and other aspects of identity shape the ways we approach these questions? Including the contested topics of burnout and self-care, questions of movement survival and activist sustainability touch on Marxist, Black, and Disabled feminisms, queer theory, the sociology of health and illness, critical theory, and other theoretical lineages. This course takes as its starting points Sarah Ahmed's concept of feminist "killjoy survival kits," Black feminist epistemology, adrienne marie brown's Pleasure Activism, and the sociology of lay health experiences. Ultimately, this course will analyze, theorize, and critique care in activism and social movements. At the same time, it will create space to discern what our own visions of sustainable, politically committed wellbeing look like.

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Nature, Technology, and Medicine in Korea

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This course examines the cultural history of modern Korea with a focus on science, technology, and medicine. From about 1500 to the present, a number of hugely consequential things happened in Korea that have been called revolutionary-or what historians dub "early modern" and "modern." Confucian kings planned large-scale projects that changed nature, rustic scholars made inventories of flora and fauna, colonial Koreans became biologists, nurses, and "Edisons," and in North and South Korea, new professionals created distinctive-and in some cases, globally-competitive-regimes of knowing, making, and healing. Students will interrogate these developments as an opportunity to revisit the history of modernity, which has been told predominantly from the perspective of the West. What does it mean to be "modern" in Korea? How did that modernity intersect with Korean science, technology, and medicine? Students will find and articulate their own answers by writing the final research paper. Recommended to have taken Korean Civilization or equivalent course that provides basic working knowledge of Korean history. Course also counts as an EALC capstone course. Undergraduates enroll in the 400-level section; 500-level section is for graduate students only. Fulfills modern elective for EALC major. Prerequisite: junior level or above or permission of instructor.

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Topics in Medical Humanities in East Asia: Illness, Healing and the Body in East Asia

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This seminar introduces students to the field of medical humanities with a focus on East Asia. After a brief methodological introduction to the field, the course will explore key aspects of the medical humanities in East Asia employing a chronological and thematic approach. From ancient China to the present, we will study and compare practices and discourses dealing with health and illness. Although the care of the body and the elimination of disease are today understood (and pursued) primarily within the domain of biomedicine, a look into the past, both remote and recent, reveals the constant intersection between the contemporary categories of "religion" and "medicine." The analysis of the practices and ideas of doctors, patients, and laypeople on what causes illness and how healing works will lead us to engage with some of the great traditions of East Asia, in particular what is today known as "traditional Chinese medicine" (or TCM), and Buddhism; and, in more recent times, with the medical technologies introduced from Europe and North-America. We will read selected primary sources and study important works of secondary literature to understand how these traditions have articulated notions of the body, health, and healing at different times and in different geographical contexts, and how they interacted with, influenced or criticized one another. This course is not meant as a comprehensive survey on health and medicine in East Asia, but rather as an introduction to selected themes and historical moments; therefore, it assumes some familiarity with the history and cultures of East Asia. There will be, however, mini-lectures and additional readings to provide additional context for those who might need it. All readings are in English, and no knowledge of any East Asian language is required, but graduate students will be encouraged to also work on primary or secondary sources in their areas of expertise. Undergraduates enroll in the 400-level section; 500-level section is for graduate students only. Fulfills either premodern or modern elective for EALC major. Prerequisites: junior level or above or permission of instructor.

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Presence in Performance: Alexander Technique and Mindful Movement for Performing Artists

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This course provides group and individual instruction in principles and methods from Alexander Technique and other somatic arts for training mindful, embodied presence in performance. Mindful movement techniques are widely used by professional dancers, actors, and musicians to enhance performance skill and to address/prevent injury and chronic pain. Through a workshop process of guided learning, students gain awareness of subtle inefficiencies in coordination and balance that cause pain and limit ability. Students gain ability to self-assess and adjust problematic movement patterns to improve freedom and expression. Alexander Technique works at fundamental levels of movement coordination, and its methods are applicable to all performing art genres. Training is tailored to each individual student's needs, skills and goals. This course involves experiential learning supported with related readings, discussion, personal research projects and presentations. Prerequisites: Graduate standing; also open to undergraduate students studying at the 400 level in their discipline with permission of instructor.

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Topics in French Literature: Disability Studies, Before "Disability"

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How do medieval and Renaissance writers understand the structures and functions of the human body? What kinds of bodies are considered disabled? Are womanhood, childhood, and old age construed as disabilities? In this course we will read texts of varied genre--farces, saints' lives, short comic tales, poems, romances, journals, essays, and chronicles--as we consider how, if at all, disability exists as a social or literary construct in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. We will also read critical and theoretical texts from the discipline of disability studies, interrogating the applicability of this largely modern-focused approach to premodern societies. Course taught in French. Texts will be available in modern French; no prior study of the Middle Ages or of Old French language is necessary. Prerequisite: French Thinking-It-Through or In-Depth. This course counts towards seminar requirement for the major, and for the French for Medical Professionals track.

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