A Cultural History of Medicine in German Literature
I: Introduction - Representing Illness and Health
1a: Intro: Course outline/Syllabus - Med. Humanities
1b: Differing Perspectives: Ideology in medicine - science & art.
II: Folk Traditions and Early Medical Practice
2a: Classical and Germanic Folk Traditions and Practices
2b: Medieval Medicine and Early Pharmaceutics
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III: Early Modern Social Anxiety and Medical Practice
3a: Morality and Anxiety in the Reformation - The Charlatan
3b: European Epidemic - Reactions to the Bubonic Plague
IV: Moral Considerations and Medical Practice
4a: Morality and Medicine
4b: Significance and Trajectory of Early Medical Practice; Discussion & Review
V: Early Mental Health Care and Modernity
5a: The Invention of Psychiatry - Reil, Goethe and the First Journal of Psychology
5b: Popular Mania and Madness: “Lesewut”, Masturbation and other Health Scares
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VI: Representations of Mental Illness
6a: Socioeconomic Factors of Illness: The Scandal of Goethe and Lenz
6b: Schizophrenia: Emil Kraepelin and ‘dementia praecox’ - Diagnostic History
VII: Establishing Care for Mental Illness
7a: Treatment: Early Institutions and Theories - Wundt & Fechner
7b: Self-care and Self-Expression. Review and Discussion of Major Topics.
VIII: National Programs and Public Health
8a: Socialized Medicine: The Health Insurance Bill of 1883 - The Public Option
8b: Social Taboo: Sex Education and Reproductive Rights - Biopolitics I
IX: Fighting Conspiracies and Paradigm Shifts in Medicine
9a: Vaccination Programs and Tuberculosis - Germ Theory
9b: The Sanitorium and Alternative Medicine - Natural Medicine
X: Racism and Harm in Health Care
10a: Eugenics: Pseudoscience and Racism - Biopolitics II
10b: Nazi Doctors: The Hippocratic Oath; Review and Discussion
XI: Insights into Illness
11a: Body Dysmorphia and Expressionist Terror
11b: Hysteria and Stream of Consciousness
XII: Narrative and Palliative Treatment
12a: Representations of Cancer and the Heroic Journey
12b: Representations of HIV and Activism
XIII: Hierarchies of Health Care Access
13a: Ethics and Economics: Organ Harvesting and the Dialectics of Science Fiction
13b: Choosing to End Life: Assisted Suicide and the Metaconscious Protagonist
XIV: Conclusion
14a: The Challenge of Technology - The Future of Healthcare and the Humanities