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  • HSOC 051: Ethics,Technology & the Life Sciences

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Moreno. In this seminar we will explore the roles and functions of the bioethicist, a new profession that has only emergedin the past quarter century or so, and the new field of bioethics. Bioethicists work in hospitals on clinical ethics, in medical schools and research facilities on exxperimentation ethics, in public policy and, more recently, in the political arena. We will also explore bioethical theories and specific issues and cases like stem cell research and the Schiavo controversy, and discuss thehistory of bioethics. And we will pay close attention to bioethical issues in the media during the semester.
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  • HSOC 058: What is Cancer Disease,Society,History

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Aronowitz. What is cancer Wht causes cancer What do its high prevalence and devastating effects tell us about ourselves and our society What can we do about it Laboratory researchers, epidemiologists, public health officials, medical specialists, environmental activists, and cancer patients have offered different and incomplete answers to such questions. Students will learn about these difference perspectives by analyzing historical documents and scholarship from different disciplines and professions, meeting with health professionals and others, and doing writing and research assignments.
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  • HSOC 095: Music and Medicine

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Breene. In the sixth century, Boethius introduced the concept of musica humana, in which he described how the harmony of body and soul was reflected in musical sound, and how this sense of harmony contributed to humanity's place in the universe at large. In the twenty-first century, neuroscientists investigate the ways in which music offers insight into the pathways of the brain, and can, in fact, help shape these pathways, thus offering a neural basis for understanding social bonding, cognition, and emotion. The rich, ever-changing relationship between music and medicine is the focus of this course. We will study this relationship as it was articulated at various cultural moments from ancient Greece to the present, with attention devoted to intersections between music and medicine in the West but with consideration also given to other cultural traditions (i.e., shamanism). Topics will include: musics effects on the body and soul, as described by ancient writers such as Plato, Aristotle, and Galen; early modern understandings of music and the humoral body; the history of tarantism, Mesmerism, and other healing methods involving music; the genealogy of music and melancholy; empiricism and emerging conceptions of the nervous, sensing body during the psychology of hearing; and music's signficance for research in neorophysiology & cognitive science.
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  • HSOC 100: Introduction to Sociological Research

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. This course surveys the different sociological methods, including: survey, content analysis, historical-comparative, participant observation and ethnographic perspectives. It reviews research design, experimental design, evaluation methods, research ethics and the uses of research. Students explore these methods and perspectives in class assignments and exercices. A brief introduction to SPSS (statistical package for the social sciences) is also provided.
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  • HSOC 101: Biomedical Ethics

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Lindee. A survey of moral problems in medicine and biomedical research. Problems discussed include: genetic manipulation, informed consent, infanticide, abortion, euthanasia, and the allocation of medical resources. Moral theory is presented with the aim of enabling students to think critically and analytically about moral issues. The need for setting biomedical issues in broader humanistic perspective is stressed.
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  • HSOC 109: Topics in Health in South Asia

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Sheehan. Drawing upon theoretical and empirical evidence, the course uses a socio-medical approach for understanding the health status and health behaviors of women in South Asia. Gender is a crucial explanatory variable of women's survival experience; burden of disease; nutritional status; and access to and utilization of health services. Girls and women face health and disease problems over their life course related to nutrition needs, reproductive health, work conditions, as well as to infectionous disease. This course places the experience of women's health in South Asia in contemporary, historic, and comparative frameworks. Lectures, discussion, and assignments provide entry to greater understanding of both the specialized nature of South Asian women's health problems, as well as those common to women worldwide.
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  • HSOC 111: Health of Populations

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Preston. This course develops some of the major measures used to assess the health of populations and uses those measures to consider the major factors that determine levels of health in large aggregates. These factors include disease environment, medical technology, public health initiatives, and personal behaviors. The approach is comparative and historical and includes attention to differences in health levels among major social groups.
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  • HSOC 118: Sociology of Bioethics

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Wolpe. The Sociology of Bioethics explores the sociological approach to bioethics. The Sociology of Bioethics is not a course in bioethics itself; rather than discussing the merits of a position (Is assisted suicide ethical ), we will ask how the debate has been framed, who is promoting which arguments, why the debate has arisen now, and how the issue is reflected in policy. In order to do so we will make use of social science research, along with philosophical treatises, legislation, and the popular media. The course is also not designed as a comprehensive treatment of the field; it will focus instead on choice topics that we will explore in depth. Our goal is to understand the nature of the bioethics profession and its modes of argumentation, and to explore the cultural, social, political, and professional underpinnings of bioethical debates.
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  • HSOC 135: The Politics of Food

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Summers. This academically based community service seminar will explore the many different politics that shape food production and consuption and problems like food insecurity and obesity here in West Philadelphia and around the world. Students will be encouraged to think broadly about how people engage in politics --articulate goals, form alliances, struggle for power, respond to and engage in leadership- in many different areas: cities, farms, factories, kitchens, markets, schools, churches, research institutions, social movements, elections, legislatures. A focus on case studies of leaders who have made a difference in the politics of food will include guest speakers, who work on food related issues.
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  • HSOC 140: History of Bioethics

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Linker. This course is an introduction to the historical development of medical ethics and to the birth of bioethics in the twentieth-century United States. We will examine how and why medical ethical issues arose in American society at this time. Themes will include human experimentation, organ donation, the rise of medical technology and euthanasia. Finally, this course will examine the contention that the current discipline of bioethics is a purely American phenomenon that has been exported to Great Britain, Canada and Continental Europe.
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