RUSS 260

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Credit: 3 hours.

Examines cultural significance of medicine and the figure of the physician, and understandings of illness and health, primarily in literature of Russia and the USSR. Asks what larger issues are at stake in the literary representation of medical practice by physicians and non-physicians alike in the Russian and Soviet contexts, and investigates what medicine and literature offer each other. Considers how medical practice is conditioned by the broader culture and is conditioned by other discursive spheres.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2025 for:

• Humanities – Lit & Arts

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