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What is health? Should it be defined by opposition to illness and disease? The course explores how the process of healing unfolds, connecting individual experiences and life stories to the study of broad social processes: transitions from war and violent domination, humanitarianism, epidemics or economic crisis. What role does memory play within healing? What is the relation between the body in pain and the body politic? What are the resonances between the legal and the lethal? Interactions between doctors and patients, as well as states and populations.