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 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 bodies, 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 Hu manities, Arts, and Social Sciences, but not both.