Uses race and gender theoretical frameworks to understand peoples’ experiences with health and medicine. We start by conceptualizing race and gender as social categories and apply
these frameworks to how people experience health, wellness, and disease. We examine how healthcare and medicine are structured according to racialized and gendered frameworks. This course surveys a wide range of issues including reproductive health, body size, mental health, COVID, among other topics. Through readings, in-class discussions, assignments and personal reflections, students will use an intersectional approach to analyzing key debates in scholarship on health and medicine.
Gen&WS 524: Race, Gender, Health, and Medicine
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