AP/GWST 4522 3.0 Cancer Biopower: Bodies, Environments, and Creativity

AP/GWST 4522 3.00

Cancer Biopower: Bodies, Environments, and Creativity

This course exposes students to a wide range of theoretical, creative, and activist responses to encounters with cancer. Foucault’s concept of biopower is applied to examine how individual bodies and entire populations are targeted by biomedical discourses and what forms of resistance and creativity are developed to confront cancer as both a public epidemic and an existential crisis. Prerequisites: AP/GWST 1501 9.00 or AP/GWST 1502 6.00.