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Faculty Course: Blaming the Body, 7.5 credits

The course is discontinued from 2025-05-08

Swedish name: Profilkurs: Blaming the Body
This syllabus is valid: 2015-03-09 and until further notice
Course code: 1LI052
Credit points: 7.5
Education level: Second cycle
Main Field of Study and progress level: No main field: Second cycle, has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
Grading scale: Pass with distinction, Pass, Fail
Responsible department: Department of Language Studies
Established by: Faculty director of studies, Faculty of arts, 2015-03-05

Required Knowledge

Upper secondary course English B or English 6  and one of the following alternatives:
1) Bachelor’s degree (180 credits)
2) 90 university credits, of which at least 7,5 credits must come from an independent project, or equivalent qualifications

Literature

Valid from: 2015 week 11

Medicine and Western civilization
Rothman David J., Marcus Steven, Kiceluk Stephanie A.
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press : cop. 1995 : xii, 442 p. :
ISBN: 0-8135-2189-0 (cloth : alk. paper $40.00)
Mandatory
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Bynum Caroline
"Why all the Fuss About the Body? A Mediaevalist's Perspective".
Critical Inquiry Vol. 22 No. 1. S. 1-33 : 1995 :

Douglas Mary
Natural symbols : explorations in cosmology
London : Routledge : 2003 : xxxix, 194 s. :
ISBN: 0-415-31454-2 (hft.)
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Douglas Mary
Purity and danger : an analysis of concept of pollution and taboo
London : Routledge : 2002. : xxi, 244 p. :
ISBN: 0-415-28995-5 (pbk.) :
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Frank Arthur W.
The wounded storyteller : body, illness, and ethics
Second edition. : Chicago : The University of Chicago Press : 2013. : xxvi, 253 s. :
ISBN: 9780226004976 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Kristeva Julia
Powers of horror : an essay on abjection
New York : Columbia U. P. : 1982 : 219 s. :
ISBN: 0-231-05346-0 ;
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Lupton Deborah.
Medicine as culture[Elektronisk resurs]b illness, disease and the body in Western societies
2nd ed. : London ;a Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications : 2003. : 202 p. :
http://miman.bib.bth.se/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/bthbib/Doc?id=10080891z Online access for BTH

Framing disease : studies in cultural history
Rosenberg Charles E., Golden Janet
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers Univ. Press : cop. 1992 : xxvi, 326 s. :
ISBN: 0-8135-1756-7 (inb.) ;
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