CHMD8005 Representing Medicine: Performance, Drama and Identity
| Offered By | School of Humanities |
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| Academic Career | Graduate Coursework |
| Course Subject | Culture, Health and Medicine |
| Offered in | First Semester, 2009 and Second Semester, 2010 |
| Unit Value | 6 units |
| Course Description |
This course introduces students to the field of medical humanities, highlighting the complex and important relationship between medicine, literature and popular culture. It focuses on the representation of medicine in both literary and televisual texts and is divided into modules based on four different kinds of medical representation: 1) Medical autobiography and reflective accounts of medical practice by doctors and other professionals 2) Pathography (personal accounts of illness) 3) Medical television drama 4) Medical reality television These four modules will be linked through 6 key themes explored throughout the course: Representations of the ideal medical professional (and challenges to this idealised identity) Representations of the ideal patient (and challenges to this idealised identity) The idea of medicine as performance The cultural construction of medical practice The relationship between narrative and illness The relationship between drama and medicine |
| Indicative Assessment | 6,000 words of written assessmnet (90%); seminar/online participation (10%). Suggested scheme for written assessment is 2 short reflective papers (500 words each) and one major essay (5,000 words). |
| Workload |
24 hours of lectures/seminars.
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| Course Classification(s) | AdvancedAdvanced courses are designed for students having reached 'first degree' level of assumed knowledge, which provide a deep understanding of contemporary issues; or 'second degree' and higher levels of knowledge; or for transition to research training programs. |
| Areas of Interest | Health, Medicine and the Body |
| Programs | Master of Culture, Health and Medicine |
| Academic Contact | Helen Keane |
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