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Apr 29, 2024
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2020-2021 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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SOC 312 - Medical Sociology (3 credits)
The course will examine three key areas in the sociology of medicine: epidemiology and the social distribution of disease, the structure and organization of healthcare institutions and the distribution of healthcare, allopathic and holistic types of medicine. Some topics covered will be medicalization, new technologies, healthcare reform, inequality in healthcare distribution, ethics, and cross-national comparative analysis of healthcare systems. Prerequisites: SOC 101 , SOC 102 , SCWK 203 /SCWK 203 , or permission of instructor. Fall.
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