What is it to be 'healthy'? In our cultural context, public health directives emphasise a politics of prevention, thereby situating the maintenance of one's 'wellness' as an individual civic responsibility. In this course, via a critical examination of a range of practices, institutional frameworks and modes of bodily being, we examine the complex relationship between current discourses about 'health' and 'illness', and the ethico-political role these categories play in the construction of 'normal' and/or 'pathological' bodies and identities. In doing so, we will productively interrogate our understandings, not only of illness, but of what is to be 'healthy'. -- Course Website
Instructor: Dr Nicole Matthews
Prerequisites: 12cp
