2018-2019 Undergraduate Academic Catalogue 
    
    Mar 28, 2024  
2018-2019 Undergraduate Academic Catalogue [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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HS 442 - Health and Illness in Latin America

(3.00 cr.)

Prerequisite: One HS100-level course, one HS300-level course. Traditional medical history has emphasized the march of science and the ideas of the "great doctors" that were assumed to have led to the improvement in medical care and the "conquering" of disease. More recently, historians have looked to other complex explanations to explore the relationship between health care systems and societies. This course looks beyond just medical care to the social, cultural, environmental, and economic factors that have shaped the development of the priorities, institutions, and personnel in the health-care system in the Americas. It examines these relationships through the lenses of gender, race, sexuality, science, and class. GT/IL



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