Week 0 : Introductions
W 1/18 : Introduction
Week 1 : Health Rhetoric
M 1/23 : Against Health?
W 1/25 : Due : Summary of “Why ‘Against Health’?”
● Metzl, Jonathan. “Why ‘Against Health’?” Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality. New York: New York UP, 2010. 1-11. Print.
Week 2 : Balance
M 1/30 : Hippocrates’ Medicine; Plato’s Republic
● Hippocrates. “On the Sacred Disease.” Trans. Francis Adams. Internet Classics Archive. [Wendoline Gamez]
● Plato. “Book II.” The Republic. 367d-379c. [Pouneh Ranjbar]
W 2/1 : Traditional Chinese Medicine; Economic Health
● “Comprehensive Discourse on Regulating the Spirit.” Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen: An Annotated Translation of Huang Di’s Inner Classic - Basic Questions. Trans. Paul U. Unschuld. Berkley: U of California P, 2011. 45-57. eBook. [Nesa Mohebpour]
● Smith, Adam. “Introduction and Plan of the Work.” An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. 1776. Ed. Edward Cannan. London: Methuen & Co., 1904. econlib.org. Web.
Week 3 : Medicine
M 2/6 : The Rise of Medicine, FDA
● Nutton, Vivian. “The Rise of Medicine.” The Cambridge History of Medicine. Ed. Roy Porter. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 2006. 46-70. Print. [Neal Hogg]
● Mogull, Scott A. “Chronology of Direct-to-Consumer Advertising Regulation in the United States.” American Medical Writers Association Journal 23.3 (2008): 106-109. [Young Lee]
W 2/8 : Foucault
● Foucault, Michel. “Spaces and Classes.” The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception. Trans. A. M. Sheridan. 1973. New York: Vintage, 1994. 3-21. Print. [Thao Le]
Week 4 : Compulsion
M 2/13 : Addiction? Repetition in Rhetoric and Writing.
● Miller, William. “What is Addiction?” Treating Addiction: A Guide for Professionals. New York: Guilford Press, 2011. 10-28. eBook. [Lindsay Marsh]
● Shaw, Charles. “Viewing Consumer Culture Through the Lens of Addiction.” The Huffington Post 6 Jun 2008. huffingtonpost.com. Web 15 Jan 2012. [Lauren Thompson]
W 2/15 : OCD; Repetition in Rhetoric and Writing.
● Davis, Lennard J. “Obsession: Against Mental Health.” Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality. New York: New York UP, 2010. 121-132. Print. [Elizabeth Rhodes, Jim Gibson]
● Memorize 3 rhetorical figures of repetition: 1 figure of repeating letters, syllables, or sounds; 1 figure of repeating words, clauses, or phrases; 1 figure of repeating ideas. (See Handlist of Rhetorical Terms 189-190, or Sylva Rhetoricae "Figures of Repetition"
● Memorize 3 rhetorical figures of repetition: 1 figure of repeating letters, syllables, or sounds; 1 figure of repeating words, clauses, or phrases; 1 figure of repeating ideas. (See Handlist of Rhetorical Terms 189-190, or Sylva Rhetoricae "Figures of Repetition"
Week 5 : Reason
M 2/20 : Mental Health; DSM
● Porter, Roy. “Mental Illness.” The Cambridge History of Medicine. Ed. Roy Porter. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 2006. 238-259. Print. [Michelle Hernandez]
● American Psychiatric Association. “Historical Background” and “Definition of Mental Disorder.” Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. 4th ed. (DMS-IV-TR). Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Association, 2000. STAT!Ref Online Electronic Medical Library.Web. 29 Aug 2011. [Jason Alvarez]
W 2/22 : Visualizing the Mind
● “Beautiful Minds: Imaging Cells of the Nervous System [Slide Show].” 9 Mar 2011 Scientific American Mind.
● Freud, Sigmund. “Consciousness and what is Unconscious.” The Ego and the Id. 1923. Trans. James Strachey. New York: Norton, 1960. 3-10. Print. [Amanda Herzer, Imelda Carrisalez]
● Memorize one rhetorical figure of reasoning, but not enthymeme or syllogismus: you already know those!
Week 6 : Feeling
Week 7 : Neuro-Rhetoric
Week 8 : Spring Break
Week 9 : Sex
Week 10 : Eugenics
Week 11 : Cancer
Week 12 : Fat
Week 13 : Fat (continued); Genes and Biotech
Week 14 : Genes and Biotech (continued)
Week 15 : Conclusions
● Memorize one rhetorical figure of reasoning, but not enthymeme or syllogismus: you already know those!
Week 6 : Feeling
M 2/27 : Depression
● Greenberg, Gary. “Manufacturing depression: A journey into the economy of melancholy.” Harper’s Magazine May 2007: 35-46. Print. [Abbey Pennington]
● Soloman, Andrew. “Depression.” The Noonday Demon. New York: Scribner, 2001. 1-30. Print. [America Gonzales, Megan Smith]
W 2/29 : Happiness
● Ricard, Matthieu. “On the habits of happiness.” Feb 2004. TED talk. ted.com. Web. [Alexandria Vandiver, Ashley Minei]
● Cameron, David. “Wellbeing Index.” 25 Nov 2010. British Prime Minister Policy Speech. [full transcript] [JuYoung Lee]
Week 7 : Neuro-Rhetoric
M 3/5 : Science of Persuasion
● Dutton, Kevin. “The Power to Persuade.” Scientific American Mind Mar/Apr 2010: 24-31. Print. [Maria Rodriguez-Zeron]
W 3/7 : Midterm: In class
Week 8 : Spring Break
Week 9 : Sex
M 3/19 : Healthy Sex
● Sex in an Epidemic. Dir. John Carlomusto. Outcast Films, 2010. Film. [screening in class]
W 3/21: Abstinence and Purity; Due: Final Project Proposal
● “About Us,” “FAQs.” abstinenceassociation.org. National Abstinence Education Association, 2010. Web. 10 Jan 2012.
● “What is a Purity Ball?” generationsoflight.com. Generations of Light, 2007. Web. 10 Jan 2012.
Week 10 : Eugenics
M 3/26 : Social Hygiene and Designer Babies
● Ellis, Havelock. “Introduction.” The Task of Social Hygiene. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913. 29-48. Print.
● Keim, Brandon. “Designer Babies: A Right to Choose?” wired.com. Condé Nast Digital, 9 Mar 2009. Web. 15 Jan 2012.
W 3/28 : The Picture of Health
● Roberts, Dorothy. “The Social Immorality of Health in the Gene Age: Race, Disability, and Inequality.” Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality. New York: New York UP, 2010. 61-71. Print.
● Read the entry for "kairos" in Lanham's Handlist of Rhetorical Terms (p. 94) or on Silva Rhetoricae.
● Roberts, Dorothy. “The Social Immorality of Health in the Gene Age: Race, Disability, and Inequality.” Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality. New York: New York UP, 2010. 61-71. Print.
● Read the entry for "kairos" in Lanham's Handlist of Rhetorical Terms (p. 94) or on Silva Rhetoricae.
Week 11 : Cancer
M 4/2 : Illness as Metaphor; Due: Final Project Bibliography
● Sontag, Susan. “Chapters 1, 3, 7, 9.” Illness as Metaphor. New York: Picador, 1977. Print. 3-9, 20-26, 50-57, 72-87.
● Sontag, Susan. “Chapter 1.” AIDS and its Metaphors. New York: Picador, 1989. Print. 93-104.
● Sontag, Susan. “Chapter 1.” AIDS and its Metaphors. New York: Picador, 1989. Print. 93-104.
● Susan G. Komen 3 Day. Susan G. Komen, 2012. Web.
W 4/4 : “Cancering”
● Hillis, Danny. “Understanding Cancer through Proteomics.” Oct 2010. TED Talk. ted.com. Web.
● Read the entry for "stasis" in Lanham's Handlist of Rhetorical Terms (93-94) or on Silva Rhetoricae.
● Read the entry for "stasis" in Lanham's Handlist of Rhetorical Terms (93-94) or on Silva Rhetoricae.
Week 12 : Fat
M 4/9 : Due: Synthesis Essay; Peer Review in class
W 4/11 : Fat in History
● Fraser, Laura. "The Inner Corset: A Brief History of Fat in the United States." The Fat Studies Reader. Eds. Esther Rothblum and Sandr Solovay. New York: New York UP, 2009. 11-14.
Week 13 : Fat (continued); Genes and Biotech
M 4/16 : Biggest Losers
● Berlant, Lauren. “Risky Bigness: On Obesity, Eating, and the Ambiguity of ‘Health’.” Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality. New York: New York UP, 2010. 26-39. Print.
W 4/18 : Genes
Week 14 : Genes and Biotech (continued)
M 4/23 : Final Essay Workshop in Class: Come prepared
W 4/25 : The Singularity?
● "10 Questions for Ray Kurzweil." Online video clip. Time. Time Inc. Web.
● "10 Questions for Ray Kurzweil." Online video clip. Time. Time Inc. Web.
Week 15 : Conclusions
M 4/30 : Final Exam: in class
W 5/2 : Conclusions
F 5/11 : Due: Final Essay
