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CS92PROD
Sociology of Medicine, Health, and Illness

FGSS 325
Spring 2018 not offered
Crosslisting: SOC 325, SISP 325
Course Cluster: Health Studies

This course will address the sociology of medicine, health, and illness from a range of critical perspectives and theoretical vantage points, including feminist social constructionism, actor network theory, the governmentality literature, queer theory, neomaterialist feminism, and disability studies. We will examine current manifestations of medicalization, health and illness, and biosociality as social products of the neoliberal context and will pursue both illness and disability as sites of social struggle. We will consider the promise and limits of social constructionism in understanding the sick body and the disabled subject; we will address the medicalization of impairments as well as trends in psychiatry; and we will look at the emerging transnational trade in organs, cell lines, and bioinformatics and consider how sociological frameworks can contribute to understanding these.
Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: SBS FGSS
Course Format: SeminarGrading Mode: Graded
Level: UGRD Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a Major Requirement for: (STS)

Last Updated on MAR-29-2024
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