SOC 214 - Sociology of Health and Disability

Credits: 5
This course examines the body and the field primarily concerned with it–medicine–from a primarily sociological perspective to understand the role of social forces in morbidity, disability, and mortality. Students explore how society shapes bodies and embodiment; how social forces affect population health and health care delivery; and how bodies are inscribed with unequal privilege.
Recommended: READ 088 or higher.