課程資訊
課程名稱
老化社會與記憶書寫
Narratives of Memory in the Aging Society 
開課學期
111-2 
授課對象
 
授課教師
陳重仁 
課號
FL1068 
課程識別碼
102 12070 
班次
 
學分
3.0 
全/半年
半年 
必/選修
選修 
上課時間
星期三2,3,4(9:10~12:10) 
上課地點
博雅102 
備註
本課程中文授課,使用英文教科書。兼通識A18*。。A18*:文學與藝術、生命科學領域。可充抵通識
總人數上限:80人
外系人數限制:60人 
 
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課程概述

這是一本討論老的課程,藉由醫學人文的跨領域研究,透過文學與醫學史的跨界角度來看待老,討論老的概念如何影響書寫創作,也討論老的價值如何影響。這門課程想要討論的,是老如何影響文學,以及文學如何反應關於老的諸多面相。如果說影響深遠的文學作品以及哲學思潮是西方世界重要的文化基底,那麼這些重要的作品便是文學書寫蘊含的豐厚底蘊,一道道的命題與鋪陳,不只是告訴人們,老是怎麼一回事,更要啟發人們,該用如何的角度與方法,來反覆思索辯證老對於人類的生命價值。
本課程檢視英美、東亞、台灣的記憶書寫與老化老化,對照醫學史的發展與社會文化思潮,閱讀醫學、文學、電影、流行文化、影像創作等互文交錯的自我認知與生命觀照。藉由反思老化等同於弱化、孤立、無用、失能的排他性想像,檢視老化書寫呈現的國族寓言與倫理危機,並省思老化書寫是否跨越疾病與健康、老化與青春、記憶與空洞等簡易化約的二元對立標準,進而尋思老化與失憶書寫具有建立認同與開啟療癒的積極意義。
 

課程目標
本研究課題希望透過文學書寫、當代思潮與醫療史的結合,一同檢驗當代人類社會在人口老化與失憶與失能威脅下所建構的的健康與生命議題,重新思考老化與失憶的議題在社會醫療化與醫療問題化過程中產生的倫理衝擊,思考因應醫療模式與風險管理的趨勢下展現的文學創作與醫學論述樣貌。主要的議題為老化論述的考掘以及失憶書寫的混亂與重建論述,藉由檢視文學書寫傳統的老化書寫脈絡,檢視並展望失憶症陰影下的健康觀照。

本課程在醫學與文學跨界思考的基礎上深化這兩門學科的互動連結,結合英美文學、當代台灣文學、醫學史、文化研究,將文學與文化的生產透過醫學史觀的角度分析閱讀。透過導入醫療史觀念與情境脈絡,便於激發思考與討論的深度與廣度。都是為了連結這兩個看似距離遙遠的學科,企圖在跨領域閱讀的激盪下,開啟更多元的文學研究策略與省思,以及更具跨界關懷的人文教育視野。
 
課程要求
課程透過教師演說、小組討論、期末研究報告等方式評量。學期間由教師選定的文學與電影作品、文件檔案等進行導讀與討論,每週授課進行討論,並依照課程進度規劃的議題進行小組報告,並於學期末針對課程閱讀與討論主題衍生的老化、安養、照護等相關議題提案進行研究報告,經與授課教師討論後自主決定期末報告進行的形式與研究策略。 
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指定閱讀
Assigned Readings:
Bayley, John. Elegy for Iris. New York: Picador, 1999.
Beauvoir, Simone de. The Coming of Age. New York and London: Norton,
1970.
Bitenc, Rebecca. Reconsidering Dementia Narratives. New York and London:
Routledge, 2020.
Cicero. How to Grow Old. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton UP, 2016.
Coetzee, J. M. Slow Man. London: Penguin, 2006.
Leibing, Lawrence, and Annette Cohen. Thinking about Dementia: Culture,
Loss, and the Anthropology of Senility. New Brunswick: Rutgers
University Press, 2006.
Munro, Alice. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage. New
York: Vintage. 2001.
Ottaway, Susannah R. The Decline of Life Old Age in Eighteenth‐Century   
  England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Shakespeare. King Lear.
 
參考書目
References:
Basting, Anne Davis. 2006. “Creative Storytelling and Self-Expression among People with Dementia.” Thinking About Dementia: Culture, Loss, and the Anthropology of Senility. Ed. Annette Leibing and Lawrence Cohen. New Brunswick, New Jersey, and London: Rutgers University Press. 180-94.
Bell, Chris. 2017. “Is Disability Studies Actually White Disability Studies?” The Disability Studies Reader, 5th Edition. Ed. Lennard J. Davis. New York: Routledge.
Bloom, David E. 2010. “Population Aging and Economic Growth.” Aging Asia: The Economic and Social Implications of Rapid Demographic Change in China, Japan, and South Korea. Ed. Karen Eggleston and Shripad Tuljapurkar. Stanford, CA.: The Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center. 21-33.
Burack-Weiss, Ann. 2006. The Caregiver’s Tale: Loss and Renewal in Memoirs of Family Life. New York: Columbia University Press.
Chatterji, Roma. 2006. “Normality and Difference: Institutional Classification and the Constitution of Subjectivity in a Dutch Nursing Home.” Thinking About Dementia: Culture, Loss, and the Anthropology of Senility. Ed. Annette Leibing and Lawrence Cohen. New Brunswick, New Jersey, and London: Rutgers University Press. 218-239.
Couser, G. Thomas. 1997. Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing. Madison, WS.: The University of Wisconsin Press.
Eggleston, Karen, and Shripad Tuljapurkar. 2010. “Introduction.” Aging Asia: The Economic and Social Implications of Rapid Demographic Change in China, Japan, and South Korea. Ed. Karen Eggleston and Shripad Tuljapurkar. Stanford, CA.: The Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center. 3-17.
Featherstone, Mike, and Andrew Wernick. 1995. “Introduction.” Images of Aging: Cultural Representations of Later Life. Ed. Mike Featherstone and Andrew Wernick. London and New York: Routledge. 1-18.
Gallagher-Thompson, Dolores, Marian Tzuang, Alma Au, Dahua Wang,Teresa B. K. Tsien, Peng Chih Wang, and Yifan Huang. 2010. “Families Dealing with Dementia: Insights from Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.” Aging Asia: The Economic and Social Implications of Rapid Demographic Change in China, Japan, and South Korea. Ed. Karen Eggleston and Shripad Tuljapurkar. Stanford, CA.: The Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center. 157-76.
Gilmore, Jean A. and Tula Brannelly. 2010. “Representations of people with dementia – subaltern, person, citizen.” Nursing Inquiry 17(3): 240–247.
Guo, Z, B. R. Levy, W. L. Hinton, P. F. Weitzman, and S. Levkoff. 2000. “The Power of Labels: Recruiting Dementia Affected Chinese-American Elders and Their Caregivers.” Journal of Mental Health and Aging 6: 103-12.
Hippius, Hanns, and Gabriele Neundörfer. 2003. “The discovery of Alzheimer’s disease.” Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience 5(1): 101-8.
Katz, Stephen. 1996. Disciplining Old Age: The Formation of Gerontological Knowledge. Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia.
Katzman, Robert, and Katherine Bick. 2000. Alzheimer Disease: The Changing View. Cambridge, MA.: Academic Publishing.
Kontos, Pia C. 2006. “Embodied Selfhood: An Ethnographic Exploration of Alzheimer’s Disease.” Thinking About Dementia: Culture, Loss, and the Anthropology of Senility. Ed. Annette Leibing and Lawrence Cohen. New Brunswick, New Jersey, and London: Rutgers University Press. 195-217.
Lan, P. C. 2002. “Subcontracting Filial Piety: Elder Care in Ethnic Chinese Immigrant Families in California.” Journal of Transcultural Nursing 13: 202-09.
Leibing, Annette. 2000. “The History of Alzheimer’s Disease and Its Impact on Senility in Brazil.” Journal of the History of the Neurosciences 9 (2): 143-44.
—-. 2006. “Divided Gazes: Alzheimer’s Disease, the Person Within, and Death in Life.” Thinking About Dementia: Culture, Loss, and the Anthropology of Senility. Ed. Annette Leibing and Lawrence Cohen. New Brunswick, New Jersey, and London: Rutgers University Press. 240-68.
McLean, Athena Helen. 2006. “Coherence without Facticity in Dementia.” Thinking About Dementia: Culture, Loss, and the Anthropology of Senility. Ed. Annette Leibing and Lawrence Cohen. New Brunswick, New Jersey, and London: Rutgers University Press. 157-79.
Ng, Sik Hung. 2002. “Will Families Support their Elders? Answers from Across Cultures.” Ageism: Stereotyping and Prejudice against Older Persons. Ed. T. D. Nelson. Boston: MIT Press. 295-310.
Ogawa, Naohiro, Amonthep Chawla, and Rikiya Matsukura. 2010. “Changing Intergenerational Transfers in Aging Japan.” Aging Asia: The Economic and Social Implications of Rapid Demographic Change in China, Japan, and South Korea. Ed. Karen Eggleston and Shripad Tuljapurkar. Stanford, CA.: The Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center. 43-62.
Smith, André P. 2006. “Negotiating the Moral Status of Trouble.” Thinking About Dementia: Culture, Loss, and the Anthropology of Senility. Ed. Annette Leibing and Lawrence Cohen. New Brunswick, New Jersey, and London: Rutgers University Press. 64-79.
Sontag, Susan. 2001 [1989]. Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors. New York: Picador.
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. 1988. “Can the Subaltern Speak?” Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture. Eds. Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press. 271-313.
Sung, K. 1995. “Measures and Dimensions of Filial Piety in Korea.” The Gerontologist 35 (2): 240-47.
Tuljapurkar, Shripad. 2010. “How Demography Shapes Individual, Social, and Economic Transitions in Asia.” Aging Asia: The Economic and Social Implications of Rapid Demographic Change in China, Japan, and South Korea. Ed. Karen Eggleston and Shripad Tuljapurkar. Stanford, CA.: The Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center. 35-42.
Woodward, Kathleen. 1991. Aging and Its Discontents: Freud and Other Fictions. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.
Zhan, L. 2004. “Caring for Family Members with Alzheimer’s Disease: Perspectives from Chinese American Caregivers.” Journal of Gerontological Nursing 13: 19-29.
Zimmermann, Martina. 2017. “Alzheimer's Disease Metaphors as Mirror and Lens to the Stigma of Dementia.” Literature and Medicine 35 (1): 71-97.
 
評量方式
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No.
項目
百分比
說明
1. 
小組討論 
30% 
 
2. 
心得報告 
30% 
 
3. 
期末計畫 
30% 
 
4. 
課程參與 
10% 
 
 
課程進度
週次
日期
單元主題
第1週
2/22  Introduction to the Narrative Tradition of Aging and Dementia 
第2週
3/01  Narratives of Aging and Writings of Dementia 
第3週
3/08  Metaphor of Aging/Dementia and Stigmatization 
第4週
3/15  Aging/Dementia and Politics of Risk Society 
第5週
3/22  Writing Aging/Dementia and Normatism  
第6週
3/29  Writings of Dementia and Construction of Identity 
第7週
4/05  Technology of the Self and Problematization of Dementia 
第8週
4/12  Narratives of Dementia and Construction of Gendered Body 
第9週
4/19  Ethics of Forgetting and Phenomenology of Aging 
第10週
4/26  Narratives of Dementia, Hospice and Ending 
第11週
5/03  Networks of Dementia in the Age of Globalization 
第12週
5/10  Aging Asia and Localized Network of Dementia Narratives  
第13週
5/17  King Lear and Its Adaptations  
第14週
5/24  Reading Alice Munro 
第15週
5/31  Reading J. M. Coetzee 
第16週
6/7  Reading Iris Murdoch