{"id":1040,"date":"2017-06-20T09:45:11","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T13:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/pathology\/?page_id=1040"},"modified":"2017-06-20T09:45:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T13:45:11","slug":"shakespeare-in-medicine-medical-students-mpat-7997-8","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/pathology\/shakespeare-in-medicine-medical-students-mpat-7997-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare in Medicine Medical Students | MPAT-7997-8"},"content":{"rendered":"

Duration of Rotation: Academic Year<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Prerequisite:\u00a0 Have completed and approved Medicine I<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shakespeare has always been celebrated for the breadth and scope of his themes, the vividness of his characters and the beauty of his poetry.\u00a0 However, the central issue I a study of Shakespeare\u2019s dramatic characters pertains to the relation between the characters and the total structure of the action, be it that the structure is shaped from within \u2013by the character\u2019s circumstance- or from without \u2013by the poetic logic of the play-.\u00a0 In these days of increasing appreciation of the role of the patient\u2019s circumstance in the causation, evolution and resolution of a clinical state Shakespeare provides a wealth of insights into the vagaries of the human condition.\u00a0 It is the antidote against a distorted new medicine that has lost the patient as its focus as it founders in Balkanized hyper-specialization.\u00a0 It is of cardinal importance as course objective to highlight the centrality of the human to the practice of medicine in all its complexity: it is about people: it is not even about persons: it is about those human beings don Miguel de Unamuno addressed as \u201cel hombre de carne y hueso<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0 Interweaving close analysis and conceptual exploration the course pursues issues of character and conflict against a background of philosophical significance as it illumines the biographical attributes the patient brings into the \u201cclinical encounter.\u201d\u00a0 Viewed from this vantage point the Shakespeare that emerges is a philosophical dramatist at one time profoundly human as well as bracingly abstract; perspective central to bridging the dehumanizing cleavage of the patient’s person from the patient’s body that Foucault has labeled the \u201cmedical gaze.\u201d\u00a0 As McGinn says about Shakespeare, “There is not a s<\/em>entimental bone in his body.\u201d\u00a0 He is endowed with the curiosity of a scientist, the judgment of a philosopher and the soul of a poet, and evidences a clinical prowess that would be an ornament on any physician.\u00a0 We hope this course will be innovative and thought-provoking as well as an exhilarating reading and theatrical experience.\u00a0 The course is intended as an instrument to heighten the appreciation for, and provide tools to, the decoding of the nuances, uncertainties, ambiguities and complexities inherent to clinical encounters thus facilitating biographical exegesis.<\/p>\n

The student is expected to study and view the plays during the designated time period.\u00a0 The discussion and analysis of each play constitutes a separate course, as required by the registrar\u2019s office. The plays to be discussed will be Macbeth, Othello, King Lear and Hamlet, in that order.\u00a0 Each has to be viewed and studied in its entirety and in sequence for each course to be considered completed.\u00a0 Individual courses are free standing and they are independent of each other.\u00a0 The student should read one act per week (5 weeks).\u00a0 Each course will adhere to the dramatic sequence so the student is expected to attend the courses in the proper sequence and to keep up with the rhythm of the discussions.\u00a0 A six and final session will be devoted to overall discussion and analysis.\u00a0 At the end of each play the student is expected to prepare a brief essay pertinent to the main character focused as if the main character were a patient.\u00a0 Failure to attend to an act\u2019s discussion will forfeit that particular course.\u00a0 There is no substitute for viewing and reading the plays in sequence and in their entirety.\u00a0 Shakespeare understood the human psyche better than anyone alive or dead and he has encapsulated a treasure trove of life experiences in each one of his palys`.\u00a0 His triumph has been \u201cto hold, as \u2019twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Faculty in charge\u00a0 :\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dr. \u00c1ngel A. Rom\u00e1n-Franco<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Duration of Rotation: Academic Year   Prerequisite:\u00a0 Have completed and approved Medicine I Shakespeare has always been celebrated for the breadth and scope of his themes, the vividness of his characters and the beauty of his poetry.\u00a0 However, the central issue I a study of Shakespeare\u2019s dramatic characters pertains to the relation between the characters…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1040","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","description-off"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}