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Health, Bodies, Identities - CUL260
What is it to be 'healthy'? In our cultural context, public health directives emphasise a politics of prevention, thereby situating the maintenance of one's 'wellness' as an individual civic responsibility. In this course, via a critical examination of a range of practices, institutional frameworks and modes of bodily being, we examine the complex relationship between current discourses about 'health' and 'illness', and the ethico-political role these categories play in the construction of 'normal' and/or 'pathological' bodies and identities. In doing so, we will productively interrogate our understandings, not only of illness, but of what is to be 'healthy'.
| Credit Points: | 3 |
| When Offered: | S2 Day - Session 2, North Ryde, Day MQC3 Day - Macquarie City Campus Study Period 3, Undergraduate, Day, November to February |
| Staff Contact(s): | Dr Nicole Matthews |
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12cp |
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| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: | Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies Faculty of Arts |
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