SOCI 514 - Medicine and the Body

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University of Pennsylvania

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Sivin. Until very recently no society's physicians, seeking to understand the contents of the living human body, could do better than construct a disciplined fantasy. The raw materials of this fantasy were what experts knew about the insides of cadavers, what people felt going on inside them and, equally important, each culture's notions of order and process in the world of Nature and in society. The results were remarkably diverse, as we learn not only from comparing the medicine of different times in the same culture. In each case we can reconstruct the relations between the lay imagination, medicine, cosmology, and values. We will draw on tools that many disciplines--from literary analysis to social theory to history of Chinese medicine--apply to the study of the body.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.upenn.edu

Phone Number:

(215) 898-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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