Sociology of Medicine, Health, and Illness
FGSS 325
Spring 2019 not offered
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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, neomaterialist feminism, and disability studies. We will examine current manifestations of medicalization, health and illness, and biosociality as social products of the neoliberal context and will 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; and we will look at the emerging transnational trade in organs, cell lines, and bioinformatics and consider how sociological frameworks can contribute to understanding these. |
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 |
Major Readings:
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 |
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