Opportunity Description
Sessional Instructor: Mental Health: Sci Cult Soc, Faculty of Arts & Science, Fall/Winter (Job Code 3817)
Employment Type: Temporary/Contract
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course provides a theoretical approach to understanding the role of psychiatric science in society and culture. Students will read from historical and critical literatures on scientific and cultural practices of mental health and illness in western societies and beyond, with attention to late capitalist practices. The class will explore mental health in a model suggesting that scientific knowledges change with paradigms of thought. Mental health will be positioned as a range of personal, social and scientific “technologies” which often produce particular behaviors. Topics of discussion include: the interstices of art and madness; changing notions of the human subject and the self; health’s relationship to citizenship and consumer society; and the historical pathologisation of dis...
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