Undergraduate Course: Medicine in Literature 2: Medical Ethics in Literature (ENLI10354)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | English Literature |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/literatures-languages-cultures/english-literature/undergraduate/current/honours |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course allows students to examine the ways in which discourses of embodiment and ethical positions change according to shifting political, social, and cultural contexts. It aims to develop the students' understanding of the representation of medical ethics from the nineteenth century to the present day, the relationship between this development and other theoretical discourses of embodiment, the ethical dilemmas encountered by doctors and medical professionals, and the portrayal of illness and abnormality in literature. |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | No |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2013/14 Semester 2, Available to all students (SV1)
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Learn enabled: Yes |
Quota: 15 |
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Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
| Class Delivery Information |
1 hour(s) per week for 10 week(s): attendance at autonomous learning group at time to be arranged. |
| Course Start Date |
13/01/2014 |
| Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
200 )
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| Additional Notes |
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| Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) |
Please contact the School directly for a breakdown of Assessment Methods
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| No Exam Information |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
| In addition to the skills training common to all English Literature Honours courses (essay-writing, independent reading, group discussion, oral presentation, small-group autonomous learning) this course will introduce students to a wide range of medical ethical issues as these have been represented and debated in literary texts from the nineteenth century to the present day. |
Assessment Information
One 2,500 word coursework essay (25%).
Final assessment will consist of an examination essay of 3,000 words for both intercalated BA students and English Literature students (75%).
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Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
1. The Doctor's Role: Albert Camus, The Plague (1947); Arthur Conan Doyle, Round the Red Lamp (1894)
2. Science and Monstrosity: Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818)
3. The Human and the Animal: H.G. Wells, The Island of Dr Moreau (1896); extract from Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man (1871)
4. Patient Politics: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Cancer Ward (1967); Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, A Dialogue on Love (1999)
5. The experience of illness: Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis (1915); Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886)
6. The Moral Machine: Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange (1962);
7. Gendered Bodies: Jackie Kay, Trumpet (1998); extract from Judith Halberstam, Female Masculinity (1998)
8. ESSAY WRITING WEEK
9. (Ab)normality: China Mièville, The Scar (2002); ¿M.R. James and the Quantum Vampire - Weird; Hauntological: Versus and/or and and/or or?¿ (2008)
10. Posthumanism: Bodily Modification Jeanette Winterson, The Stone Gods (2008); Stellarc, ¿An Ear on My Arm¿ (2005); extract from Donna Haraway, Modest Witness @ Second Millennium (1997)
11. Posthumanism: Cloning Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let me Go (2005)
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| Transferable skills |
Not entered |
| Reading list |
Howard Brody, Stories of Sickness (2003)
A. F. Kleinman, The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, and the Human Condition (1988)
Rita Charon, Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness (2006)
Robert Kastenbaum, The Psychology of Death (1992)
Yasmin Gunaratnam and David Oliviere, Narrative and Stories in Health Care: Illness, Dying, and Bereavement (2009)
Lucy Bending, The Representation of Bodily Pain in Late Nineteenth-Century English Culture (2000)
Michel Foucault, The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception (1963)
Mary K. Deshazer, Fractured Borders: Reading Women's Cancer Literature (2005)
Arthur Frank, At the Will of the Body (1991)
Gillian Beer, Darwin's Plots (1983)
James J. Sheehan and Morton Sosna (eds), The Boundaries of Humanity: Humans, Animals, Machines (1991)
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus (1980)
Rosi Braidotti, Transpositions (2006)
Cary Wolfe, What is Posthumanism? (2009)
Donna Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (1991)
N. Katherine Hayles, How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics (1999)
Neil Badmington (ed.), Posthumanism (2000)
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| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Miss Claire Mckechnie
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Course secretary | Ms Sheila Strathdee
Tel: (0131 6)50 3619
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