RELIGN 55
Spirit of Medicine
Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Examination of relationship between medicine, religion, and society; how religion is help or hindrance to health; and what health care might look like beyond biomedical clinic. Examination of historical entwinement of religion, medicine, and society in Western antiquity to early modern period; disentanglement in Enlightenment to early 20th century; and confluence of science, technology, and capitalism in biomedicine compartmentalized from religion today. Conceptualization of rhetorics and epistemplogies of healing--what it means to be healed and how one would know--and put in tension with faith healings and religion-as-medicine, medicine-as-religion, and integrated approaches. Analysis of alternatives to biomedical status quo in theoretical medicine and in health care delivery, with particular attention to questions of justice and holistic care in U.S. and of policy and practice globally. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 5.0
Units: 5.0
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Fall 2024 - One of the nicest professors ever! The lecture itself was super interesting. However, it could be a bit confusing at times. It is a lot of hypotheticals and philosophical questions, so when it felt confusing, I would go to office hours, which was a huge help. There are no tests, only essays, but definitely work hard on them since they count for nearly all of your grade. I would love to have him again as a professor, and I highly recommend this class!
Fall 2024 - One of the nicest professors ever! The lecture itself was super interesting. However, it could be a bit confusing at times. It is a lot of hypotheticals and philosophical questions, so when it felt confusing, I would go to office hours, which was a huge help. There are no tests, only essays, but definitely work hard on them since they count for nearly all of your grade. I would love to have him again as a professor, and I highly recommend this class!
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