Healing the Body: The Visual Culture of Medicine - Interdisciplinary
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Overview
Subject area
ARTH
Catalog Number
2101ID
Course Title
Healing the Body: The Visual Culture of Medicine - Interdisciplinary
Description
Examines the visual culture of medicine, including how images help shape medical knowledge, artistic representations of the healthy and ailing body, and the emergence and increasing dependence on visual technologies. The lecture course consists of three modules that present the socio-historical context of medicine in relation to the body, disease and illness, and treatment and healing. Students acquire skills to better analyze images, and examine variables in cultural values that underlie medical practice across history.
Pre- or Corequisite
034626
Liberal Arts
Yes
Course Attributes
INTD - INTD (Interdisciplinary)
Department(s)
Credits
Minimum
3
Max
3
Components
Name
Lecture
Contact Hours
3