MSCI M100: Topics in
Medical Sciences
Medicine in the Media
Summer Session II
3 credit hours
MTW 10:00 – 11:15
Place TBA
Do you watch Gray’s Anatomy? House, M.D.? Scrubs? What are they really showing? How accurate are they? This class will look at medicine in popular American media including TV, movies, novels, magazines, and online. Part of the class entails watching these medical TV shows or movies while the other portion will provide students first with the knowledge of basic anatomical systems and later, with the information necessary to recognize some of the well-known diseases that are presented. We will then use this information to critique the media and assess why they present medicine this way. We will use recent media and those from a few years back.
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Contact: Polly Husmann @ phusmann@indiana.edu
