124070 VO Culture, Society and the Media (2024W)

(Sexual) Health: Media, Inequalities and Justice

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik

Moodle

Mo 25.11. 13:15-14:45 Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

Language: English

Examination dates

N Tuesday 21.01.2025 13:15 - 14:45 Digital

Lecturers

Monika Pietrzak-Franger

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Monday 07.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
Monday 14.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
Monday 21.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
Monday 28.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
Monday 04.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
Monday 11.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
Monday 18.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
N Monday 25.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
Monday 02.12. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
Monday 09.12. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
Monday 16.12. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
Monday 13.01. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Various media ranging from 17th century broadsheets to contemporary social platforms like TikTok have contributed to the development of the public sphere of health information. This fundamental intertwining of medical practice, representational traditions, and health politics will constitute the focus of this lecture. The convener, along with a handful of invited guests, will provide an overview of some of the patterns, developments, and characteristics of contemporary and historical visual cultures and health. Particular emphasis will be given to sexual health.

We will ask how medical concepts such as health, disease, illness, and healing have been made visible through and in a variety of media. We will also inquire in how far discourses around body, gender, ethnicity, class or age have informed these visual and medical practices and how these have been used by various organizations and corporations to promote their ideologies. These questions will be accompanied by more fundamental queries concerning identity, inequalitiy and ethics in the media.

This is a cultural studies lecture that draws inspiration from Medical and Health Humanities. Whereas, often, Medical Humanities courses concentrate on literature and written narratives, this lecture goes beyond such a narrow focus to include a variety of media/arts and sciences.

The lecture will be a presence-lecture with some online sessions.

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Assessment and permitted materials

End-of-term, take-away exam covering the required reading and the issues discussed in class.

The teacher reserves the right to conduct a personal interview with any student whose written work has a doubtful status, in relation to plagiarism, ghost-writing or illegitimate AI-use.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

You can get 100% in the exam. 60% are needed to get a passing grade.

Marks in %:
1 (very good): 90-100%
2 (good): 80-89%
3 (satisfactory): 70-79%
4 (pass): 60-69%
5 (fail): 0-59%

Examination topics

The required reading and the topics covered in class.

Reading list

Lecture contents will be made available via Moodle.

Recommended readings include:
- Daniels, N. (2008). Just health: meeting health needs fairly. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Foucault, M. (1980). The history of sexuality. 1, An introduction (1. ed.). New York, NY: Vintage Books.
- Hall, Stuart. Representation: Cultural representations and signifying practices. Sage Publications, Inc; Open University Press, 1997.
- Lupton, Deborah. Medicine as Culture: Illness, Disease and the Body in Western Societies. 2. ed, SAGE, 2006, pp. 1-19.
- Pietrzak-Franger, Monika.Syphilis in Victorian Literature and Culture: Medicine, Knowledge and the Spectacle of Victorian Invisibility. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
- Serlin, David.Imagining Illness: Public Health and Visual Culture. Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2010.

Association in the course directory

Studium: BA 612, EC 125, EC 126; BEd 046
Code/Modul: BA07.1, EC Cultural and Regional Studies 1; BEd Modul 10
Lehrinhalt: 12-4070

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