Medical Rhetorics, Race, and Gender

3 Hours

Examine how health and illness are defined through rhetorics about and within medicine. Focus on race and gender, consider how communication and language shape understandings of health, access to health care, and experiences of illness and disability. Only one of the following may be counted: Rhetoric and Writing 330D (Topic: Medical Rhet/Race/Gender), 330D (Topic 18), Women's and Gender Studies 335 (Topic 29).