Humanities & Law/Culture, University of Nebraska Medical Center

Students will broaden their understanding of health care from the literary, humanistic, and social standpoints by reflecting on and discussing selected works. Objectives: Students will be better able to: Identify and discuss the philosophical and emotional dimensions of health care practice. Relate health care practice to larger moral, social, and public policy concerns. Compose and present to the group a well-constructed book review, essay, short story, dramatic scene, poem, or visual representation of one or more themes emerging from the readings and films. Topics Covered: Students will read at least four noted interpretations of medicine in literature and social science, such as: The Doctor Stories, Being Mortal, The Emperor of All Maladies, Cutting for Stone, Five Days at Memorial, The House of God, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Blood and Bone (collected poems), The Citadel, When Breath Becomes Air, selections from On Doctoring. Three films will be shown followed by discussion, such as: A Civil Action, The Verdict, The Doctor, Contagion, Something the Lord Made, Vera Drake, Supersize Me, Extremis. The meeting schedule, readings, and films will be established by agreement of the faculty and students on the first day of the rotation. Capacity: 20 Selective only. This information has been collected for the Post-Discipline Online Syllabus Database. The database explores the use of literature by schools of professional education in North America. It forms part of a larger project titled Post-Discipline: Literature, Professionalism, and the Crisis of the Humanities, led by Dr Merve Emre with the assistance of Dr Hayley G. Toth. You can find more information about the project at https://postdiscipline.english.ox.ac.uk/. Data was collected and accurate in 2021/22.