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Rethinking Health: Critical Medical Studies - CUL260
Medicine continues to be one of the most pervasive, authoritative and powerful institutions in contemporary culture. Western crisis intervention medicine is increasingly moving towards a politics of prevention, thereby situating the maintenance of one’s ‘wellness’ as an individual civic responsibility. Public health directives have come to shape our understandings not only of illness and disease, but of our ideal conception of what is to be ‘healthy’. This unit will introduce students to the emergent interdisciplinary field of critical medical studies, by exploring the role of medical discourse in our understanding of our lived embodiment, and the ways the diverse aspects of our selfhood (such as class, gender, and ethnicity) shape the ways in which we understand 'health'. Taking a Cultural Studies approach to our exploration of medical discourse and public health, we will critically examine the ways health and illness are constructed, understood and experienced.
| Credit Points: | 3 |
| When Offered: | 2013 - Next offered in 2013 |
| Staff Contact(s): | Dr Samantha Murray |
| Prerequisites: |
3cp in CUL units at 100 level or DANC100 |
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| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: | Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies Faculty of Arts |
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