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ENGL 342AE - The History of Medicine in/as Literature
This course explores how eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britons understood and imagined health, pathology and medicine. In poetry, novels, essays, medical journals, travelogues and other accounts, we will ask questions about contagion and difference; the emergence of so-called race science; the gendering of conditions such as hysteria and apoplexy, and more. *Prerequisite of ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or the completion of 48 credit hours.* Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 342AE or ENGL 485BA. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Examination English and Creative Writing Department Course Attributes: Rest/18th Cent/Rom (1660-1838) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Undergraduate Graduate

ENGL 342AE - The History of Medicine in/as Literature

This course explores how eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britons understood and imagined health, pathology and medicine. In poetry, novels, essays, medical journals, travelogues and other accounts, we will ask questions about contagion and difference; the emergence of so-called race science; the gendering of conditions such as hysteria and apoplexy, and more. ***Prerequisite of ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or the completion of 48 credit hours.*** *Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 342AE or ENGL 485BA.*
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture, Examination

English and Creative Writing Department

Course Attributes:
Rest/18th Cent/Rom (1660-1838)

Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels:
Undergraduate
Graduate

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