This course introduces students to key topics and debates in the field of Medical or Health Humanities. Students will learn how medical practitioners, patients, and the larger public engage with and narrate ideas of health and healing, as well as how factors of race, gender, sexuality, nationality, culture, and disability shape these narratives. Students will hone their critical reading, writing, and oratory skills through coursework that engages different forms of narratives on medicine and health, including (but not limited to) memoirs, comics, short fiction, poetry, essays, critical theory, and documentary.