Fall 2014

MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
ANTH 381 Distribution Group II

Instructor: Mitchell, Beverly M.
Cultural, ecological, and biological perspectives on human health and disease throughout the world. (View Registrar Listing)

MEDICAL HUMANITIES VISUAL CULTURE
HART 396 Distribution Group I

Instructor: Brennan, Marcia G.
In this course we will examine literal and symbolic representations of the human body in order to explore the relations between the visuality of medicine, corporeality, subjectivity, and healing. Repeatable for Credit. (View Registrar Listing)

DEMONS, MENTAL ILLNESS AND MEDICINE
RELI 350

Instructor: Clements, Niki K.
Treats complex connections between religious beliefs/practices and formulation of human psychology in western tradition, through a historical reckoning with demonology. Consider the way demons are represented -- from semi-corporeal beings to marks of mental illness -- by looking at texts from the ancient world to modern psychiatry. (View Registrar Listing)

MEDICINE AND MEDIA
ENGL 273 Distribution Group I

Instructor: Ostherr, Kirsten A.
An interdisciplinary exploration of the role of imaging technologies in the practice of medicine, and the role of mass media in shaping our understandings of the body, health, and disease. This course examines visual media structure "ways of seeing" for physicians and for the public. Emphasis will be placed on developing media literacy skills. (View Registrar Listing)

DEMONS, MENTAL ILLNESS AND MEDICINE
RELI 605

Instructor: Clements, Niki K.
Treats complex connections between religious beliefs/practices and formulation of human psychology in western tradition, through a historical reckoning with demonology. Consider the way demons are represented -- from semi-corporeal beings to marks of mental illness -- by looking at texts from the ancient world to modern psychiatry. RELI 605 requires: 7,500-10,000 word research paper and oral presentation. (View Registrar Listing)