FRSEMR 38j - Medicine and Literature

Institution:

Harvard University

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Description:

Based on literary and medical texts. Addresses: Can language express physical pain? Can the body-in its fragile or injured form-enter literature? Are all our senses (hearing, touch, taste, smell) as vividly present in language as vision is? How does the empathic representation of illness or pain in literature differ from the physician's professional attempt to cure or alleviate suffering or (when that is impossible) to solace the suffering patient?

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.harvard.edu

Phone Number:

(617) 495-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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