WMST 185: Gender, Race, and Medicine

2008-09 2009-10 →
changes (lax) changes (strict) ▾ 2012-13 → 2009-10 →

Units: 4

Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; written work, 1 hour; extra reading, 1 hour; individual study, 1 hour

Catalog page 413

Prerequisites: upper-divi- sion standing or consent of instructor

Description: Explores the relationship between Western medicine and women, racial minorities, and non-Western citizens. Investigates how gender ideology, racial inequity, and colonialism shape the medical representation of bod- ies, sexuality, and pathology. Examines how patients have renegotiated their relationships with medicine through health movements and alternative healing practices. Cross-listed with ANTH 143. Fulfills either the Humanities or Social Sciences requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, but not both.