Note:Weekly topics and readings listed here are provisional and may be updated after the course begins--please check this site weekly for updates. Some weeks list a number of readings--required readings will be selected from those listed by the instructor through discussion with participants. Some optional readings will be summarized and discussed by presenters.
WEEK 1 (Sept 28) : Course
overview; Framing Care
Readings:
- Michael Fine (2007), selections from A Caring Socitey?
Films/Media:
- Bashu, the Little Stranger, (Bahram Beizai, Iran,1986/9)
- Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame (Buda az sharm foru rikht, Hana Makhmalbaf ,Iran, 2007) http://www.veoh.com/watch/v4028699hTPd6ZT7?h1=bashu-the+little+stranger.m4v
- Straight Story, (David Lynch, USA, 1999)
- Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist (Kirby Dick, USA, 1997)
- "Mother" commercial for Mass Mutual: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzIg0vw8gNY
WEEK 2 (Oct 5): Feminist Ethics of Care
Readings:
- Carol Bacchi and Chris Beasley (2005), "Reproductive Technology and the Political Limits of Care" in Ethics of the Body, eds, Shidrick & Mykiiuk. MIT Press.
- Carol Bacchi and Chris Beasley, Moving Beyond Care and/or Trust: An Ethic of Social Flesh
- Myriam Winance, (2010). "Care and Disability: Practices of Experimenting, Tinkering with, and Arranging People with Technical Aids" in Mol, Mose, Pols, eds,Care in Practice
Alternative/Additional Reading:
- Carol Gilligan, "In a Different Voice: Women's Conceptions of Self and of Morality"
- Nel Noddings,(1992) "Care" in The Challenge to Care in Schools
- Cheshire Calhoun (1988), "Justice, Care, Gender Bias"
- Sara Ahmed, "Killing Joy: Feminism and the History of Happiness"
- Eva Feder Kittay and Ellen Feder, eds (2002), The Subject of Care: Feminist Perspectives on Care (Selections)
- Eva Feder Kittay and Ellen Feder, "Introduction"
Films/Media:
WEEK 3 (Oct 12): Care of Self. Care of the Other
Readings:
- Michel Foucault, History of Sexuality, Vol 3: Care of the Self (selections)
- Emanuel Levinas, Totality and Infinity (selections)
- Richard Ganis, The Politics of Care in Habermas and Derrida: Between Measurability and Immeasurability (selections)
Alternative/Additional Reading:
- Sara Ahmed, "This other and other others"
- Sara Ahmed, "Affective Economies"
- Sara Ahmed and Anne-Marie Fortier, "Re-Imagining Communities"
- Eva Feder Kittay, "At the Margins of Moral Personhood"
- Joan Didion, "In Bed"
Films/Media:
WEEK 4 (Oct 19): Critical Approaches to Empathy
Readings:
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Elizabeth Wilson, Ch 4 "Trembling, Blushing" in Psychosomatic: Feminism and the Neurological Body (also, "Darwin’s Nervous System")
- Luc Boltanski, "The Politics of Pity," "The Aesthetic Topic," and "How Realistic is Action?" in Distant Suffering: Morality, Media, and Politics
- Michael Slate, The Ethics of Care and Empathy (selections)
Alternative/Additional Reading:
- Rayna Rapp and Faye Ginsburg, "Enabling Disability: Rewriting Kinship, Reimagining Citizenship
- Lilie Chouliaraki, "Post-humanitarianism: Humanitarian communication beyond a politics of pity"
- Vilayanur Ramachandran: "A Radical Theory of Autism" http://bigthink.com/videos/a-radical-theory-of-autism and "The neurons that shaped civilization" (Ted Talk) http://www.ted.com/talks/vs_ramachandran_the_neurons_that_shaped_civilization.html?source=email#.UhOM0N_KSnx.email and his center: http://cultureofempathy.com/References/Experts/Vilayanur-Ramachandran.htm
Films/Media:
WEEK 5 (Oct 26): Politics of Vulnerability. Dependency, Independence, and Interdependence
Readings:
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Ingunn Moser and John Law, "Making Voices"
- Annemarie Mol "Care and Its Values: Good food in the nursing home," Care in Practice: Adaptable Technologies and Fragile Bodies, eds, Mol, Moser & Pols, eds.
- Sara Ahmed, "Collective Feelings Or, The Impressions Left by Others"
Alternative/Additional Reading:
- Eva Feder Kittay, "Vulnerability and the Moral Nature of Dependency Relations" from Love's Labor: Essays on Women, Equality, and Dependency
- Dorothy Roberts, "Poverty, Race, and the Distorition of Dependency" in Eva Feder Kittay and Ellen Feder, eds (2002). The Subject of Care: Feminist Perspectives on Care
- Sara Ahmed, "The Gendered Context of Vulnerability: Coping / Adapting to Floods in Eastern India"
- Kate Brown "Re-moralising 'vulnerability'"
- Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron and Nicole L. Asquith, "The Extraordinary Intricacies of Policing Vulnerability"
- Lennard J. Davis, "Dependency and Justice"
- Martha C. Nussbaum, "Analytic Love and Human Vulnerabililty?"
Films/Media:
WEEK 6 (Nov 1): Care and the Boundaries of the Nation-State
Readings:
- Eva Feder Kittay, "The Global Heart Transplant and Caring across National Boundaries"
- Martha T. McCluskey, "Subsidized lives and the Ideology of Efficiency"
Films/Media:
WEEK 7 (Nov 8): (In)Visible Illness and Unrecodnized Difference
Readings:
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Jen R, "Invisible Illnesses, Visible Stereotypes"
- N. Ann Davis, "Invisible Disability"
- Gagnon, M., & Stuart, M. (2008). "Manufacturing disability: HIV, women and the construction of difference." Nursing Philosophy, 10, 42-52.
- Susan Leigh Star and Geoffrey C. Bowker, "Enacting silence: Residual categories as a challenge for ethics, information systems, and communication"
- Susan Lingsom, "Invisible Impairments: Dilemmas of Concealment and Disclosure"
Alternative/Additional Reading:
- Amanda L. Kundrat & Jon F. Nussbaum, "The Impact of Invisible Illness on Identity and Contextual Age Across the Life Span"
WEEK 8 (Nov 15): Lay Expertise: Care Activism and Participation in Knowledge Formation
Readings:
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Steve Epstein (1996) Impure Science: AIDS, activism, and the politics of knowledge, (Selections)
- Cathy Charles and Suzanne DeMaio, "Lay Participation in Health Care Decision Making: A Conceptual Framework," Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Vol. 18, No.4, Winter 1993
Alternative/Additional Reading:
- N. J. Fox, et al, "The 'expert patient': empowerment or medical dominance? The case of weight loss, pharmaceutical drugs and the Internet"
Films/Media:
WEEK 9 (Nov 22): Lay Expertise: Participation in Knowledge Formation | Care and Excrement
- Margaret Mead, "Research with Human Beings: A Model Derived from Anthropological Field Practice"
- Alison Kafer, "At the Same Time, Out of Time: Ashley X" from Feminist, Queer, Crip
- Joëlle Kivits, "Researching the 'Informed Patient"
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Week 10 ( Dec 6): Care's Others: Culture and Politics of Carelessness
Reading:
- Achille Mbembe, "Necropolitcs", Public Culture Winter 2003 15(1): 11-40
- Sara Ahmed, "The Organization of Hate"
- Adriana Petryna and Arthur Kleinman, "The Pharmaceutical Nexus" in Global Phamaceuticals eds Petryna, Lakoff, Kleinman
Alternative/Additional Reading:
Films/Media:
Final Paper Due: Friday, December 13th by noon
Alternative Week: Networked and Distributed Care
Readings:
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Michael Hardey, "'E-health': the Internet and the transformation of patients into consumers and producers of health knowledge," Information, Communication & Society 4:3 2001
- Ofelia Schutte, "Dependency Work, Women, and the Global Economy" in Eva Feder Kittay and Ellen Feder, edThe Subject of Care
- Gunther Eysenbach,"Credibility of Health Information and Digital Media: New Perspectives and Implications for Youth"
Alternative/Additional Reading:
- Alfred Katz, "Self Help and Mutual Aid: an Emerging Social Movement?"
- Joëlle Kivits, "Everyday health and the internet: a mediated health perspective on health information seeking"
- Patricia Radin, "'To me, it's my life': Medical communication, trust, and activism in cyberspace"
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