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Individuals with chronic illness suffer a double burden: they must cope with disabling disorders and also contend with the stigmas affiliated with those disorders. The radical subjectivity of pain destroys language, the primary tool necessary in self-care and in combating the propagation by the media and medical community of socially-constructed myths and interpretations of chronic illness and pain. Ironically, through the metaphors and symbols of creative acts the voices of the ill are heard in new ways. A new language is evolving that can provide insight into the Culture of Illness and Pain.
Course descriptions are stored in OASIS and are maintained by the Associate Dean for each School.
* Prerequisite Required.
