The following is a selective outline of course concepts covered in "The Healthy Woman: Mothers to Cyborgs" Fall 2018 and Fall 2020.
History
- Premodernism, Modernism, Postmodernism
- History of Science and Humanities
- Techne
- Scientism
- Science as embodied/disembodied
- Science as disembodying/dehumanizing
- Science as sovereign/apotheosized
- Science as sublime
- Science as transgressive
- Science as rapacious and gluttonous
- Medical Gaze & Medical Paternalism
- Philanthropia vs Agape
- Humble Servant
- Philanthropia vs Agape
- Enlightenment / Age of Reason
- Classical and Sensible Beauty
- Utopic Science
- Empiricism / Rationalism
- Romanticism
- Gothicism
- Apocalypses / Trauma
- Master-Slave Dialectic
- Diseased Imagination
- Strange Beauty
- Poe's “The death of a beautiful woman, is questionably the most poetical topic in the world”
- "Aberrant" Gender/Sexuality
- Autoeroticism
- Homoeroticism
- Strange Beauty
- Experimental vs Observational Science
- Eros / Mad Doctor
- Gothicism
- Victorianism
- Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
- Realism
- Verisimilitude
- Local Color
- Veritism
- Psychological Realism
- Storge / Father Doctor
- Modernism & Postmodernism
- Absurdism
- Surrealism
- Biomedical/Western vs Oriental Medicine
- Cure-Care-Enhance Spectrum of Medical Goals
Knowledges & Theories
- Definition of Culture
- Liberal Arts Education
- Cartesian Dualism
- Gender Apathy
- Public vs Private
- Antifeminism
- Woman Question
- Yentl Syndrome
- Hysteria
- Infantilization
- Objectivity vs Subjectivity
- Authority vs Experience
- Tabula Rasa
- (Subjective) Empiricism
- Romantic Objectivity vs Realistic Objectivity
- Authority vs Experience
- Atomistic Materialism vs Teleology
- Paradigm Shift
- Medical Maternalism
- Reductionism vs. Holism
- Monism
- Noise
- Essentialism vs. Constructivism
- Articulation vs. Representation
- Anxiety of influence / Anxiety of authorship
- Other & Othering
- Subaltern
- Abject
- Double Consciousness
- Language
- Interpellation
- Semiotics
- Signifier, Signified, Sign, & Referent
- Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
- Écriture feminine (female writing; antilogos)
- White ink
- Bisexual Writing
- Phallocentric writing, or Phallogocentrism (male writing; antilove)
- Mimetic Theories (Plato, Aristotle, Henry James, Oscar Wilde)
- Demythologization & Denaturalization
- French Feminism
- Phallus / Yoni
- Bisexuality
- Psychosexual “economy”
- Cybernetics
- Body as Matter/Energy/Information
- Feminist Science
- Ecofeminism
- Intersectionality
- Situated Knowledges vs Relativism
- Negative Capability
- Aporia
- Humor
- Irony
- Superiority Theory
- Relief Theory
- Incongruity Theory
Heroes, Villains, and Myths
- Romantic Hero
- Promethean Hero
- Femme Fatale
- Homme Fatale
- Vampirism
- Self-Sacrificing Scientist
- Scientist as Criminal
- Scientist as God
- Republican Motherhood
- Silent/Silenced Woman
- Silent/Silencing Doctor
- Medusa, Fairy, Black
- Moloch vs. Milk Mother
- Mad Woman
- In-betweens
Metaphors
- Newton’s Philosophy of Analogy
- Importance of metaphors
- Dangers of metaphors
- Vision
- Phantasmagoria & Hypnagogia
- Vitalism
- Camera Obscura
- Scopophilia / Voyeurism / Scotoma
- Male Gaze
- Embodied vs Disembodied
- People as Animals/Plants/Machines
- Women as flowers and opium
- Garden of Eden
- Grotesque Monster
- Defensible Self vs. Pregnant Woman
- Cyborg
Genres & Writing
- Narrative Medicine
- Pathography
- Ecopathography
- Didactic Pathography
- Cavalier poetry
- Sonnet
- Conduct Book
- Haiku
- Science Fiction
- Female Epic
- Cyborg Writing
- Hypertexts