Units: 4
Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; written work, 1 hour; extra reading, 1 hour; individual study, 1 hour
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Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent of instructor
Description: Explores the rela- tionship 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.