Units: 4
Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; written work, 1 hour; extra reading, 1 hour; individual study, 1 hour
Catalog page 301
Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent of instructor
Description: Explores the relation- ship 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 move- ments 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.