STS 3111

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STS 3111
Sociology of Medicine

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2016-2017.

This course provides an introduction to the ways in which medical practice, the medical profession, and medical technology are embedded in society and culture. We will ask how medicine is connected to various sociocultural factors such as gender, social class, race, and administrative cultures. We will examine the rise of medical sociology as a discipline, the professionalization of medicine, and processes of medicalization and demedicalization. We will look at alternative medical practices and how they differ from and converge with the dominant medical paradigm. We will focus on the rise of medical technology in clinical practice with a special emphases on reproductive technologies. We will focus on the body as a site for medical knowledge, including the medicalization of sex differences, the effect of culture on nutrition, and eating disorders such as obesity and anorexia nervosa. We will also read various classic and contemporary texts that speak to the illness experience and the culture of surgeons, hospitals, and patients, and we will discuss various case studies in the social construction of physical and mental illness.

When Offered Spring.

Permission Note Not open to Freshmen.

Distribution Category (SBA-AS)

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: BSOC 3111, DSOC 3111, SOC 3130

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16698 STS 3111   LEC 001

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  • 16699 STS 3111   DIS 201

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  • 16700 STS 3111   DIS 202

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  • 16701 STS 3111   DIS 203

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  • 17753 STS 3111   DIS 204

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  • 17754 STS 3111   DIS 205

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  • 17755 STS 3111   DIS 206

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  • 17756 STS 3111   DIS 207

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