Health, Illness and Medicine in Spanish and Spanish American Literature and Film

In this class we will read/see, discuss and write about texts and films that deal with health, illness, death and medicine in Spanish and Spanish American contexts. Our approach will be informed by principals of Narrative Medicine that demonstrate how attending to, representing and affiliating oneself with other human beings by studying literature and the arts can transform relationships between patients and healthcare professionals. We will be honing our reading and analytical skills as we confront the subjective dimensions of illness and medicine from humanistic and cross-cultural perspectives. This course is conducted in Spanish.