Spring 2016

19TH CENTURY PSYCHOLOGICAL FICTION AND MEDICINE
HURC 211 Distribution Group I

Instructor: Mulligan, John C.
The Romantic and Victorian periods saw debates among literary and medical authors over the nature, function, and location of consciousness. This course explores these debates to learn the history of a literary and medical movement, critically engage with present-day debates about these texts, and reflect on the changing relationship between sciences and humanities in general. (View Registrar Listing)

EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY AND THE FUTURE OF MEDICINE
BIOC 447

Instructor: Wagner, Daniel S.
Current biological methods offer the potential to transform health care. We will examine the biology and methodology of emergent health care technologies such as stem cell therapy and personal genome sequencing to understand their potential to impact human health. (View Registrar Listing)

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)

THE PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE
PHIL 314 Distribution Group I

Instructor: Engelhardt, H T.
The biomedical sciences, the practice of medicine, and health care policy employ concepts of health, disease, disability, and defect in explanatory accounts, intermixing factual claims with moral and other evaluations. This course explores the interplay of evaluation and explanation in medicine's models of disease and health. (View Registrar Listing)

HRC PRACTICUM IN HEALTH HUMANITIES
HURC 430

Instructor: Bailar, Melissa A.
This practice-based course is conducted in partnership with health institutions in Houston. Qualified and advanced students work 5-10 hours/week on site with health professionals, archivists, center directors, and others to develop projects in specific research areas. Students meet regularly with instructor to discuss research and to present work at an end of semester symposium. Repeatable for Credit. (View Registrar Listing)

CRITICAL HUMANITIES - HEALTH AND BODY
HURC 307 Distribution Group I

Instructor: Bailar, Melissa A.
This course comprises six modules co-taught by faculty and medical professionals. Modules will address DNA and genetics, changes in medical education, the pathologization of difference, the process of dying, disability and ability, the doctor-patient relationship, and more. (View Registrar Listing)

MEDICAL PROFESSIONALISM AND OBSERVERSHIP
NSCI 399

Instructor: Merlo, Gia
This course consists of lectures to enhance your knowledge of medical professionalism, an intense writing experience aimed at reflecting on your experiences in both the lectures and clinical settings, and an opportunity to shadow a physician and/or observe in the operating room, intensive care unit or other clinical unit at Houston Methodist hospital. Once enrolled in the spring, students will have the opportunity to review the experiences of past students to select a specialty that closely aligns with your goals and expectations. Please note, matching with physicians will not occur until students begin matriculating in NSCI 399. (View Registrar Listing)

TOPICS IN MEDICAL ETHICS
PHIL 336 Distribution Group I

Instructor: Brody, Baruch A.
A philosophical examination of some of the fundamental issues in clinical ethics, including informed consent, competency, confidentiality, end of life decision making, the definition of death, allocating scarce medical resources, and the role of economic analysis in clinical decision making. Readings drawn from the clinical and philosophical literature. (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)

INDEPENDENT STUDY IN MEDICAL HUMANITIES RESEARCH
HUMA 401

Instructor: Ostherr, Kirsten A.
Independent Study with a faculty member at the Texas Medical Center focusing on a medical humanities research topic. Students spend up to 10 hours/week at TMC and are graded on evaluations submitted by faculty supervisors. Repeatable for Credit. (View Registrar Listing)

ILLNESS, DISABILITY, AND THE GENDERED BODY
ANTH 354

Instructor: Wool, Zoe H.
This course draws on critical disability studies and medical anthropology to explore how gender and sexuality matter in contexts of illness and disability across a range of institutional, social, and national contexts. We pay particular attention to the ways illness and disability expose, disturb, or retrench normative arrangements of gender. (View Registrar Listing)

SCIENCE POLICY, AND ETHICS
NSCI 511

Instructor: Matthews, Kirstin R.
An introduction to the policy, ethics, politics, and legal issues that relate to science and technology - discovery and application. This course presents a framework for analyzing ethical issues in business and professional work. The course then explores the ways in which government policy and business practices can promote or inhibit advances in science and technology while influencing the ethical choices of the professionals involved. Case studies will be used. (View Registrar Listing)

MASTERCLASS IN PUBLISHING, EDITING, PRESENTING AND PUBLIC WRITING
HURC 606

Instructor: Campana, Joseph A.
Offers undergraduate and graduate students insight into the public life of writing with particular attention to academic and literary publishing, editing, and presenting. Sessions organized around topics in these areas and visits with experts (agents, editors, authors, presenters, etc.) with experience in publishing, and creating series, festivals, and other forms of presentation. Meets 3 times per semester, helps develop internship possibilities for participants, and develop strategies for increasing the presentation of public writing at Rice. Mutually Exclusive: Credit cannot be earned for HURC 606 and HURC 406. Repeatable for Credit. (View Registrar Listing)

THE DOCTOR IS ON
HURC 213 Distribution Group I

Instructor: Kozicki, Benjamin J.
Fictionalized characters such as House, Doogie Houser, and Hawkeye Pierce reinforce stereotypes as much as they challenge assumptions and (re)define cultural attitudes toward doctors (and the medical profession in general). This course examines the portrayal of healthcare professionals in television, fiction and film to discuss philosophical and ethical questions as well as the modern medical apparatus from biopolitical and social systems perspectives. (View Registrar Listing)

CONCEIVING AND MISCONCEIVING THE MONSTROUS IN FICTION AND IN ART, IN MEDICINE AND IN BIOSCIENCE
HUMA 368 Distribution Group III

Instructor: Gustin, Michael and Harter, Deborah
However various the forms of life, we draw boundaries between the "normal," the "not normal," and the "monstrous." From the Biosciences to the Arts - from the cyclopean eye to Frankenstein - monsters illuminate (whether in fact or in fiction) who we are, how we perceive, and what we fear. (View Registrar Listing)