Michel Foucault's work is important for the health professions in many ways. Foucauldian discourse analysis is a particularly useful method for scholars to study the ways in which discourses systematically construct the social world. A Foucauldian approach makes visible dominant 'regimes of truth' that arise from normalized and sanctioned ways of thinking, speaking, and being. Foucault's own genealogical histories explored clinical medicine, ethics, the body, sexuality, madness, identity, and many other topics that are pivotal to health professional education. In the course we will explore Foucault's concept of discourse, examine Foucault's own discourse analyses/genealogical studies, read critiques of his approach written by scholars with various perspectives, meet researchers currently working with a Foucauldian approach, and learn to use discourse analysis as a research method.