Units: 4
Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; written work, 1 hour; extra reading, 1 hour; individual study, 1 hour
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Prerequisites: restricted to class level standing of junior, or senior; 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-listing: Cross-listed with ANTH 144F.
Referenced in
- Corporeality and Embodiment Designated Emphasis — Designated Emphasis Requirements
- Gender and Sexuality Studies — Major Requirements
- Labor Studies Minor
- Medical and Health Humanities Studies Minor
- Society, Environment, and Health Equity — Global and Community Health Major
- Speculative Fiction and Cultures of Science Minor