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Are you interested in what it means to be normal or abnormal, and how that differs across space and time? This course seeks to explore what (ab)normality means, particularly in medicine. What makes a body "normal", "healthy", "beautiful", "good", or... not those things?

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📅 Duration: 1 Semester
💻 Format: In-Person
⏰ Time: Mondays, Wednesdays 2:30PM – 3:50 PM

💫 Credits: 4
📍 Location: TBA

📚 Foundational Literacies: Writing Intensive

🌎 Global Engagement: DEIS-US

🧑🏽‍⚕️ HSSP Focus Area B Elective

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AI-generated photo representing "the body, power, and norms" from CANVA Dream Lab

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Develop a nuanced and informed understanding of the following key concepts and terms:

the body, particularly as a cultural phenomenon

pathology, abnormality, and normality

biopower and biopolitics

aesthetics, particularly in relation to the body

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AI-generated image representing the prompt "Different Differences," generated by CANVA's Dream Lab AI

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Develop a critical awareness of different types of people and bodies who do not easily fit into medicine's mold of normality. We will discuss problems related to the following identity categories and "boxes" people may be shuffled into:

race, ethnicity, and nationality

gender, sex, trans*-ness, and sexuality

(dis)ability and illness

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AI-generated photo for the "politics of aesthetics" because "The Politics of Fixing (Bodies)" was understood to be searching for inappropriate imagery by the machine. Generated by CANVA's Dream Lab

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Explore medical and other interventions that assist in the attainment of beauty and health ideals, and the politics that undergird them. We explore the influences and potential influences of the following on the politics of fixing:

modernity

nationality, ethnicity, and transnational politics

the normativity of whiteness

histories of experimentation

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Tentative Syllabus

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ANTH 125a - Abnormality in Medicine Syllabus_Oyarzun SP25 v.2

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Sophomore+ status OR instructor permission required