Topics in Communication Studies (395-0-21)

Topic

The Experience of Illness: Body, Self, & Story

Instructors

Bruce L. Lambert
710 N. Lake Shore 15th Floor Chicago Campus

Meeting Info

Frances Searle Building 2107: Mon 11:00AM - 1:50PM

Overview of class

This course examines the experience of chronic illness from the perspective of the ill person. It introduces the trajectory model of chronic illness, a model that sees health as the result of a stable alignment of body, self, and life story. It uses this model to understand adherence to medical regimens and to describe how it is possible to heal from chronic illness without being biomedically cured of the underlying disease.

Class Materials (Required)

No textbook required.

Class Attributes

No Freshmen