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2025 Spring > UGRD > PHIL > PHIL 265

Sanity and Madness

Course #: PHIL 265

Description:
This course looks at a number of questions about insanity or ''madness'': What it is like, how it should be described and regarded, therapeutic and curative responses to it, and what special treatment-if any-its sufferers deserve. We pay particular attention to the claims of the so-called ''anti-psychiatry'' movement, to Foucault and contemporary post-modernist writing, and to feminist analyses of the relation between madness and gender.

Section Class Number Schedule/Time Instructor Location
01 10242 TuTh
12:30 - 1:45 pm
Miranda,Dana Francisco McCormack M01-0207
Session: Regular
Class Dates: 01/27/2025 - 05/14/2025
Capacity: 35
Enrolled: 0
Status: Open
Credits: 3/3
Class Notes:
Pre Requisites:
Course Attributes: United States, Social & Behavioral Sciences