By affirming the interdependence of literature and medicine, this course serves as an interdisciplinary study exploring works of western literature that deal overtly with illness and healing, works about/by physicians as well as other caregivers, and works that raise questions about ethical behavior in the face of sickness. Students will examine western medicine in its cultural contexts, as expressed in literary texts, such as fictions, dramas, poems and memoirs. These representative works reveal how medical issues underlie many of the vital questions of our age: what particular roles might literature have within medicine traditions? How do literary figures respond to human condition in the face of death? How are the concepts of illness/health represented in literary texts? How does the gender difference bring impact upon the practice of medicine? How are women as patients represented or objectified in both medical and literary texts? How do women respond to or “write back” to such objectification of medical discourse?
教學目標Course Objectives
1 Exposure to the critical analysis of literary texts helps students to develop transferable skills and attitudes that are essential in their career as researchers and clinicians.
2 Focusing on the literary areas pertinent to medicine, this course aims at contributing to the holistic education of medical humanities and broadening the prospective of the students.
3 By developing critical and analytical skills, students are also expected to enhance and associate a text to its social and historical background exploring its influence.
1 Exposure to the critical analysis of literary texts helps students to develop transferable skills and attitudes that are essential in their career as researchers and clinicians.
2 Focusing on the literary areas pertinent to medicine, this course aims at contributing to the holistic education of medical humanities and broadening the prospective of the students.
3 By developing critical and analytical skills, students are also expected to enhance and associate a text to its social and historical background exploring its influence.
先修科目Prerequisites
None
None
教學方式Teaching Methods
非同步教學(主要提供線上影音教材，透過線上教學平台進行作業及討論)
Asynchronous Online Learning
講課
Lecturing
小組討論、腦力激盪(如案例討論、電影欣賞等)
Group discussion, Brain storming, e.g., Case study, Event discussion, Movie review
學生創新、創意活動
Innovation, creative activities
學生上台報告、角色演練
Oral presentation, Role playing
評量方式Assessment
期中報告
Midterm report
期末報告
Final report
小組上台報告
Group oral report
出席狀況
Class attendance
課堂參與與表現
Class involvement
心得與反思報告
Learning gain and introspection report
Miterm, Final report, group oral presentation, attendance
參考書目Reference
Appignanesi, Lisa. Mad, Bad and Sad: a History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800. London: Virago, 2008.
Caldwell, Janis McLarren. Literature and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Britain: from Mary Shelley to George Eliot. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. (excerpt)
Caldwell, Janis McLarren. “Science and sympathy in Frankenstein.” Literature and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Britain: from Mary Shelley to George Eliot. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. 25-45.
Foucault, Michel. Madness and Civilization: a History of Insanity in the Age of Reason. London: Routledge, 1991.
Foucault, Michel. “Seeing and Knowing.” The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception. Trans. Sheridan smith. New York: Vintage, 1973. 107-23.
Furst, Lilian R. Medical Progress and Social Reality: A Reader in Nineteenth-Century Medicine and Literature. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000.
Gilbert, Sandra M., and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic: the Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination. New Haven: Yale UP, 1979.
Hurwitz, Brian. “Form and Representation in Clinical Case Reports.” Literature and Medicine 25.2 (2006): 216-40.
教學進度Course Schedule
2022/02/22 Course Overview 課程簡介
Course Overview
郭欣茹(Kuo, Hsin-Ju) 2022/03/01 An Introduction to “Literature and Medicine”
Rita Charon, “Narrative Medicine”
Susan Songtag, Illness as Metaphor
Virginia Woolf, “On Being Ill”
文學與醫學 概論
何謂敘事醫學
疾病的隱喻
論生病
An Introduction to “Literature and Medicine”
Rita Charon, “Narrative Medicine”
Susan Songtag, Illness as Metaphor
Virginia Woolf, “On Being Ill”
郭欣茹(Kuo, Hsin-Ju) 2022/03/08 Images of Doctors and Patients in Literary Representations (I)
Franz Kafka, "A Country Doctor"
文學再現下的醫師與病患形象(I)
卡夫卡 鄉間醫師
Images of Doctors and Patients in Literary Representations (I)
Franz Kafka, "A Country Doctor"
郭欣茹(Kuo, Hsin-Ju) 2022/03/15 Images of Doctors and Patients in Literary Representations (II): Gender Issue in Medical Discourse
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper”
文學再現下的醫師與病患形象 (II): 醫學論述下的性別議題
夏綠蒂·柏金斯·吉爾曼 黃色壁紙
Images of Doctors and Patients in Literary Representations (II) (Gender Issue in Medical Discourse)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper”
郭欣茹(Kuo, Hsin-Ju) 2022/03/22 Fear of Contagion
Bram Stoker, Dracula
感染的恐懼
布蘭斯托克 吸血鬼德古拉
Fear of Contagion
Bram Stoker, Dracula
郭欣茹(Kuo, Hsin-Ju) 2022/03/29 Fear of Contagion
Bram Stoker, Dracula
感染的恐懼
布蘭斯托克 吸血鬼德古拉
Fear of Contagion
Bram Stoker, Dracula
郭欣茹(Kuo, Hsin-Ju) 2022/04/05 Qingming Festival
Qingming Festival
郭欣茹(Kuo, Hsin-Ju) 2022/04/12 Cultural Connotations of Drugs
Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes short stories
藥物的文化意涵
柯南道爾 福爾摩斯系列故事
Cultural Connotations of Drugs
Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes short stories
郭欣茹(Kuo, Hsin-Ju) 2022/04/19 Midterm
期中報告
Midterm
郭欣茹(Kuo, Hsin-Ju) 2022/04/26 Guest Speech (I) 校外專家學者西洋文學與醫學講座
Guest Speech (I)
郭欣茹(Kuo, Hsin-Ju) 2022/05/03 Literary Imagination, Science and Ethics (I)
Mary W. Shelley, Frankenstein, or Modern Prometheus
文學想像, 科學與倫理
瑪莉雪萊 科學怪人
Literary Imagination, Science and Ethics (I)
Mary W. Shelley, Frankenstein, or Modern Prometheus
郭欣茹(Kuo, Hsin-Ju) 2022/05/10 Literary Imagination, Science and Ethics (I)
Mary W. Shelley, Frankenstein, or Modern Prometheus
文學想像, 科學與倫理
瑪莉雪萊 科學怪人
Literary Imagination, Science and Ethics (I)
Mary W. Shelley, Frankenstein, or Modern Prometheus
郭欣茹(Kuo, Hsin-Ju) 2022/05/17 Literary Imagination, Science and Ethics (II)
Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
文學想像, 科學與倫理
石黑一雄 別讓我走
Literary Imagination, Science and Ethics (II)
Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
郭欣茹(Kuo, Hsin-Ju) 2022/05/24 Literary Imagination, Science and Ethics (II)
Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
文學想像, 科學與倫理
石黑一雄 別讓我走
Literary Imagination, Science and Ethics (II)
Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
郭欣茹(Kuo, Hsin-Ju) 2022/05/31 Guest Speech II 校外專家學者西洋文學與醫學講座
Guest Speech II
郭欣茹(Kuo, Hsin-Ju) 2022/06/07 Ageing and Disease: Dementia 老年與疾病:失智症
Alice Munro, "The Bear Came Over the Mountain"
Ageing and Disease: Dementia
Alice Munro, "The Bear Came Over the Mountain"
郭欣茹(Kuo, Hsin-Ju) 2022/06/14 Ageing and Disease: Dementia 老年與疾病:失智症
Alice Munro, "The Bear Came Over the Mountain"
Ageing and Disease: Dementia
Alice Munro, "The Bear Came Over the Mountain"
郭欣茹(Kuo, Hsin-Ju) 2022/06/21 課程總整檢討回顧，期末報告
Course Wrap-up
Final
Course Wrap-up
Final
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