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2019-2020 Undergraduate & Graduate Catalog
SOC 286 - Sociology of Health Care
In this course, we draw on sociological and interdisciplinary frameworks to examine comparative health care systems, social origins of disease and health inequalities, biomedicine as a cultural system, social construction of disease, medicalization and social control, and alternative healing practices, perspectives, and politics. Offered fall and winter semesters.
Credits: 3