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Nov 22, 2024
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HH393 Health Narratives3 credit(s)
This course explores the intersections of narrative and medicine through analysis of health-oriented literature (including fiction, film, and memoir). Students will examine how narrative expectations influence approaches to diagnosis and treatment; how common metaphors about illness and recovery shape our beliefs about health and medicine; and how stories help us to make meaning of our choices when confronted with the complex realities of disability, illness, and mortality. Through close reading, discussion, and writing, students will learn to identify narrative patterns and formal elements that contribute to the meaning of texts and stories, to consider health care situations from multiple perspectives, and to cultivate narrative competence, a core skill in the practice of narrative medicine. Also offered as E393 .
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