GDEV 3111
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Classes
GDEV 3111
Course Description
Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2023-2024.
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 Enrollment limited to: seniors, juniors, and sophomores.
Distribution Category (D-AG, SBA-AG)
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: BSOC 3111, SOC 3130, STS 3111
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Meeting Pattern
- WF Rockefeller Hall 203
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Chaudhuri, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Meeting Pattern
- R Goldwin Smith Hall 236
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
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Staff
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Instruction Mode: In Person
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Meeting Pattern
- R Goldwin Smith Hall G19
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
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Staff
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Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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- R Goldwin Smith Hall G24
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
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Staff
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Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Rockefeller Hall 110
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Staff
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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