INTD What is Normal? I: Physical Abnormalities
Physical abnormalities look at the pressure to make everyone normal, and the consequences of those pressures. We will examine several examples of what the "normal people" consider to be "abnormal." The readings will include medical and ethical articles as well as selections of drama, poetry, and fiction.
Courses
- INTD What is Human?
- INTD Narrative Bioethics
- INTD Narrative Medicine
- BIMD Issues in Women's Health
- INTD Pushing Up Daisies: Western Perspectives on Death and Dying
- INTD What's Normal? I: Physical Abnormalities
- INTD Perils of the Normal
- INTD Obligations to Others
- INTD Global Health and Human Rights
- INTD Aging, Sex, and the Body
- INTD Genetics, Identity, and Popular Culture
- INTD How We Die
- INTD What's Normal? II: Mental and Emotional Disorders
- INTD Alternative Health Care Systems
- INTD Literature and Aging
- INTD Uses and Abuses of Power
- INTD Literary Anatomies
- INTD Stories of the Self
- INTD On Human Suffering
- BIMD Facing Illness and Death
- BIMD The Biomedical Imagination
- BIMD Service in the Healthcare Setting I
- BIMD Service in the Healthcare Setting II
- Clinical Shadowing Internship
- Research Internship
- Senior Seminar
