Sociology of Medicine, Health, and Illness
FGSS 325
Spring 2015
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01
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| Crosslisting:
SOC 325, SISP 325 |
This course will address the sociology of medicine, health, and illness from a range of critical perspectives and theoretical vantage points, including feminist social constructionism, actor network theory, the governmentality literature, queer theory, neo-materialist feminism, and disability studies. We will examine current manifestations of medicalization, health and illness, and biosociality as social products of the neoliberal context, and pursue both illness and disability as sites of social struggle. We will consider the promise and limits of social constructionism in understanding the sick body and the disabled subject; we will address the medicalization of impairments as well as trends in psychiatry; we will look at the emerging transnational trade in organs, cell lines, and bioinformatics and consider how sociological frameworks can contributing to understanding these. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS FGSS |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: None |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 50% - 74% |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Foucault, Michel, BIRTH OF THE CLINIC
Franklin, Sarah and Celia Roberts, BORN AND MADE: AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF PREIMPLANTATION GENETIC DIAGNOSIS
Metzl, Jonathan, PROTEST PSYCHOSIS: HOW SCHIZOPHRENIA BECAME A BLACK DISEASE
Mol, Annemarie, THE BODY MULTIPLE: ONTOLOGY IN MEDICAL PRACTICE
Rose, Nikolas, THE POLITICS OF LIFE ITSELF
Sharpe, Leslie, STRANGE HARVEST: ORGAN TRANSPLANTS, DENATURED BODIES, AND THE TRANSFORMED SELF
Scully, Jackie Leach, DISABILITY BIOETHICS
Wilkerson, Abby, THE MORAL AUTHORITY OF MEDICINE
Williams, Simon, MEDICINE AND THE BODY
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Examinations and Assignments:
weekly blog entries, final paper |
| Instructor(s): Pitts-Taylor,Victoria Times: ..T.R.. 02:40PM-04:00PM; Location: ALLB304; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 19 | | SR major: 9 | JR major: 10 | | |
| Seats Available: 0 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 0 | JR non-major: 0 | SO: 0 | FR: X |
| Web Resources: Syllabus |
| Drop/Add Enrollment Requests | | | | | |
| Total Submitted Requests: 4 | 1st Ranked: 1 | 2nd Ranked: 0 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 3 |
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