ENG 3333 - Health, Medicine and the Humanities: The Intersectionality of Health Literature

3 Credit Hour(s)

This course focuses on a study of texts and films by, for, and about health care providers, medical practitioners and patients from various global cultures in order to investigate the intersectionality of the humanities, medicine and health as a whole. We will explore how literature and motion pictures interact with communicable, non-communicable diseases, mental illnesses and other public health concerns paying particular attention to how language is used by both healthcare providers and recipients across cultures. The goal is to sow that even though medicine and healthcare are within the sciences, at their very nucleus is the humanities.