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Apr 19, 2024
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HIST 138 SC - Disease, Identity, and Society
In all societies, understanding of disease assumes a central role in constructing the relationship between the individual and society. This course will undertake an in-depth analysis of three different diseases at three specific historical moments and the social norms they produced: the plague (social ostracism in Medieval Europe), tuberculosis (the emergence of the bourgeois conception of “self” in 19th-century Europe) and AIDS (sexuality as a source of danger and an expression of liberation in contemporary America). The course will focus on a variety of texts, including Boccaccio’s The Decameron, Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, and Paul Monette’s Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir.
Course Credit: 1.0
Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
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