SOCI40523
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Health, Illness and Medicine
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Long Description (Catalog Description)
Prerequisite: SOCI 20213, or 20223, or permission of instructor. Critique of the changing structure and functioning of the institution of medicine in America and the continuing inter- and intra-institutional contention for authority. Focus on current issues, problems, and trends such as litigation, governmental financing and regulation, corporate entry into medical care, sexism in medicine, and alternative medicines and practitioners.
Course Typically Offered
Every other spring
Career
Undergraduate
Catalog Course Attributes
CRES - CRES (Comp Race & Ethnic Studies), HCET - HCET (Health Care Ethics Classes), MDSH - MDSH (Medical Social Health Hum)
Min Units
3
Max Units
3
Repeat for Credit
No
Number Of Repeats
1
Code
LEC
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Lecture