Last modified: 25 Sep 2019 09:58
Challenging conventional boundaries between the humanities and the sciences, this course explores the relationship between literature and medicine, and asks what kind of ground the two disciplines might share and how they might enrich one another. The course considers a wide range of texts concerned with the human experience of illness, health and disease from the eighteenth century to the present.
| Study Type | Undergraduate | Level | 3 |
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| Term | First Term | Credit Points | 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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Topics to be addressed include: the use of rhetorical techniques by doctors in both clinical writing and correspondence with patients; the adoption and transformation of the case history in medical writing and the novel; the incorporation by novelists of medical knowledge into their narratives; the representation in literature of ethical dilemmas encountered by medical professionals; pain, sympathy and the medical encounter; the role of narrative in shaping the way in which doctors, patients and illnesses are represented and perceived; the intersection of literature and psychiatry.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 80 | |
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| Feedback | Word Count | 2500 | ||
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| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 20 | |
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There are no assessments for this course.
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