Sociology of Health and Medicine
Conceptions of health and illness, although not uniform the world over or even in any one society, are of fundamental importance in every society. How health is defined in various societies, how the ill are viewed by the well, how illness is treated, who the healers are, how they are trained, and what their position is in society, the relationships among the religion, class, gender and age of the ill and their healers, when and how public health policies are inaugurated are among the topics studied.
Basic Courses:
SOCI 101 Bioethics
SOCI 111 Health of Populations
SOCI 118 Sociology of Bioethics
SOCI 134 Health and Social Policy
SOCI 152 American Health Policy
SOCI 175 Medical Sociology
SOCI 264 Poverty, Race, and Health
SOCI 277 Mental Illness
SOCI 307 Race, Science and Justice
Advanced Courses:
SOCI 513 Medicalization: Theory and History
SOCI 514 Medicine and the Body
SOCI 572 Health Care and Social Policy
SOCI 577 Professions and Society
SOCI 583 Sociology of Medicine
SOCI 594 History of Population
SOCI 644 Empirical Methods in Bioethics
SOCI 796 Demographic, Economic and Social Relations
Updated 12.11.19