History
Graduate Colloquia
Tu 8:10-10AM
This course will provide historical background to one of the most pressing issues in contemporary United States politics (indeed, a problem which now faces most developed countries): the problem of health maintenance. The main focus will be on post-WWII urban political economy and topics to be considered will include the distribution of health care and health burdens, disparities in health, the formation of social movements around health issues, the geography of health and illness, urban land use policy, environmental justice, the politics of stigma and exclusion, statistical methodologies (and controversies) in historical perspective, racial classification, informed consent (or lack thereof), and HIV/AIDS. Readings will be interdisciplinary, emerging from the fields and disciplines of political science, sociomedical science, sociology, anthropology, historical epidemiology, ethnographic community psychiatry, and others.
Instructor permission required.
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