Health, Illness, and Power in America
AMST 353Z
Winter 2023
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01
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| Crosslisting:
SISP 353Z |
In this class, we will explore the interlocking histories of health, illness, and power in America. Special attention will be paid to the ways in which discourses of the healthy body have undergirded notions of citizenship and belonging in the nation. We will consider how processes of disease, disability, and contagion have been imagined through the lenses of social difference, including race, gender, sexuality, and class. We will address civil institutions designed to manage individual and population health, and we will consider theories of political power in the making of the "modern" body. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS AMST |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Student Option |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Major Requirement for: (AMST)(STS) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Readings will be available through Moodle, library reserve, and the bookstore. Sample readings include: Nayan Shah, CONTAGIOUS DIVIDES: EPIDEMICS AND RACE IN SAN FRANCISCO'S CHINATOWN Emily Martin, BIOPOLAR EXPEDITIONS: MANIA AND DEPRESSION IN AMERICAN CULTURE Susan Sontag, ILLNESS AS METAPHOR Cathy Cohen, THE BOUNDARIES OF BLACKNESS: AIDS AND THE BREAKDOWN OF BLACK POLITICS France Widdance Twine, OUTSOURCING THE WOMB: RACE, CLASS, AND GESTATIONAL SURROGACY IN A GLOBAL MARKET Nancy Ordover, AMERICAN EUGENICS: RACE, QUEER ANATOMY, AND THE SCIENCE OF NATIONALISM Robert McRuer and Anna Mallow, eds., SEX AND DISABILITY Timothy Campbell and Adam Sitze, eds., BIOPOLITICS, A READER
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Examinations and Assignments:
Students will be responsible for: (1) presentations on the reading; (2) Moodle posts responding to the reading; (3) active and engaged class participation; (4) small group write-ups; (5) "show and tell" assignments which require students to bring in outside material related to the assigned reading; (6) a final paper on a topic of their choice related to class themes and ideas. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
This course is scheduled to be held Online. In-person courses may be moved online due to the pandemic. All Winter Session students should expect some readings and assignments to be due during winter break, prior to the beginning of Winter Session class meetings. Syllabi for Winter Session courses will be posted to https://www.wesleyan.edu/wintersession/courses.html as soon as they are available. |
| Instructor(s): Glick,Megan H. Times: .MTWRF. 12:00PM-04:00PM; Location: ONLINE; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 15 | | SR major: 3 | JR major: 3 | | |
| Seats Available: 6 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 3 | JR non-major: 2 | SO: 2 | FR: 2 |
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