SOC 306 Sociology of Health, Illness, and Medicine
The professionalization of medicine has brought on many contemporary transformations in the medical field, yet health disparities still commonly relate to social categories such as gender, race or social class. This course will analyze medical organizations and institutions, as well as actions and interactions of healthcare professionals among each other and with patients. It will explore how various cultural and social contexts shape patients’ experiences. This course will also examine concepts such as medicalization of the society, social etiology of the diseases, alternative medicine, medical ethics, and bioethics.