Units: 4
Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; written work, 1 hour; extra reading, 1 hour; individual study, 1 hour
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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-listing: Cross-listed with WMST 185.