Introduction to Medical Humanities: Feminist Studies Approaches
This course offers an introduction to the Medical Humanities from the perspective of Feminist Studies. How might our thinking about medicine, science, healthcare, and even objectivity itself be deepened through engagement with Feminist Studies? Through fiction, podcasts, academic texts, and films, we will explore how science is rationalized as universal knowledge, consider the social and political nature of medical interventions, and discuss how medical categories are created through the workings of race, gender, class, sexuality, and ability. We will consider labs, scientific instruments, diagnostic procedures, and health outcomes as social, political, and cultural objects and worlds.