LIT-119 Literature as/of medicine
Writers from Longinus to Toni Morrison believe that literature itself can heal, that it can make us better, and is itself a kind of medicine. In this course we will examine this idea in poetry, novels, plays, and non-fiction, in the context of representations of the lives of doctors and patients, medical history and theory, and disease. Texts include works by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Mary and Percy Shelley, Kafka, Sontag, Amis, and Gawande.
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