May 11, 2024
2012-2013 Undergraduate Catalog

SOC 350 Sociology of Health

3 Credits

In this interdisciplinary approach to the study of health and illness in American society, illness is seen as a culturally and socially learned response; and medicine as an institution of social control. Other topics include the medicalization of society; health care in other countries; women and health care; issues in mental health; and health care reform.

Prerequisite(s): Social Science Core.



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