HSOC 010 Health and Societies
Cross-listed as STSC 010
Offered:Spring 2008
Barnes TR 10:30-12 + recitation
Foundational Course (required for all HSOC majors)
This course is an introduction to the vocabulary, skills, and concepts basic to sociocultural studies of health and disease. While recognizing the importance of the biomedical model, particularly to Western civilization, the course asks students to explore other approaches and healing traditions. It does so by exploring how policy analysts, medical care providers, and scholars from a variety of disciplines including anthropology, history and sociology have crafted responses to such real world problems as malnutrition, epidemic disease, and the inequitable distribution of health resources.
