ENGL 3603 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Betty Friedan, Bed Rest, Fluoxetine
20 Feb 2016
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The stories that ill people tell come out of their bodied. The body set in motion the need for new stories when its disease disrupts the old stories. The body, whether still diseased or recovered, is simultaneously cause, topic, and instrument of whatever new stories are told. These embodied stories have two sides, one personal and the other social . Uses the word recovered instead of cured . We will read works that imagine disease, cure, and convalescence as gendered modes, asking how literature exposes pathologization and how authors rewrite illness beyond pathology. We will focus on the regulation imposed by cultural of social understandings of sickness and the resistance posed by authors to medicalization. Medical authority and the patient"s perspective: epistemologies of illness. Choice (life the fig tree; treatment whether to take prozac) Medical treatment changes over the century +. Some of these themes/topics are also in cancer. Role of gender (written on the body its central point)
