Medical Sociology

Course Catalog:

In this course an ecosystem model of health is introduced and used to explore social and cultural factors involved in health, disease, and health care in both developed and developing nations. Illustrative topics to which the model is applied include infant mortality rates in the Third World and among the poor in the U.S., traditional and scientific medicine, chronic diseases in the developed nations, health of minorities in the U.S., and comparisons of health care systems in various modern societies.