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  • HSOC 145: Comparative Medicine

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Feierman. This course focuses on health and healing in the colonial and post-colonial world. We give special attention to local healing under condition of domination, to definitions of the body and the person in biomedicine and in non-European healing traditions, and to th epolitical and cultural place of medicine in regions which have experienced colonial rule.
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  • HSOC 150: American Health Policy

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Linker. This lecture course will introduce students to a broad range of topics that fall under the heading of American health policy. Its main emphasis will be on the history of health care in America from the U.S. Civil War to the present day. Some of the themes addressed include: American public health movements and hospitals, private health insurance (such as Blue Cross/Blue Shield),industrial health and workmen's compensation, the welfare state (in Europe and the U.S.), women's health, especially maternal and infant care programs, Medicare/Medicaid, the Clinton Health Plan, injured soldiers and the Veterans Administration.
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  • HSOC 152: Technology and Medicine in Modern America

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Staff. Medicine as it exists in contemporary America is profoundly technological; we regard it as perfectly normal to be examined with instruments, to expose our bodies to many different machines; and to have knowledge produced by those machines mechanically/electronically processed, interpreted and stored. We are billed technolgoically, prompted to attend appointments technologically, and often buy technologies to protect, diagnose, or improve our health: consider, for example, HEPA-filtering vacum cleaners; air-purifiers; fat-reducing grills; bathroom scales; blood pressure cuffs; pregancy testing kits; blood-sugar monitoring tests; and thermometers. Yet even at the beginning to the twentieth century, medical technolgies were scarce and infrequently used by physicians and medical consumers alike. Over the course of this semester, we will examine how technology came to medicine's center-stage, and what impact this change has had on medical practice, medical institutions and medical consumers - on all of us!
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  • HSOC 154: The Medical Anthropology of Alcohol Use

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Chrzan. The morality, rights, and responsibilities of alcohol use are hotly debated in the United States. The rhetoric of appropriate use ranges from Puritan-inspired abstinence campaigns, through health-promoting moderation arguments, to discourses legitimizing hedonism. The result of a lack of cleary cultural paradigms for intoxicant use is clearly seen on college campuses, where movements for zero-tolerance alcohol bans coexist with social rituals that include binge drinking. This course will utilize medical anthropology theory to: 1) contextualize the phenomenon historically and cross-culturally; 2) encourage students to critically analyze existing paradigms which determine acceptable usage and treatment modalities; 3) use the University of Pennsylvania campus as a local case study/field site to investigate alcohol use. Students will move from theory to action through creation of a feasible proposal addressing alcohol-use education on Penn's campus, or will participate in the modification and implementation of existing proposals to promote rational and low-risk use of alcohol i the college community.
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  • HSOC 170: Ancient Greek Medicine

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Rosen. The history of modern medicine as we know it in the West is remarkably recent; until the nineteenth century prevailing theories of the body and mind, and the many therapeutic methods to combat disease, were largely informed by an elaborate system developed centuries earlier in ancient Greece, at a period when the lines between philosophy, medicine, and what we might consider magic, were much less clearly defined than they are today. This course will examine the ways in which the Greeks conceptualized the body, disease, and healing, and will compare these to medical culture of our own time. We will consider sources from Hippocrates, Plato, and Aristotle to Galen and Soranus, and whenever possible we will juxtapose these writings with modern discourse about similar topics. Several visitors from the Medical School are expected to participate on a regular basis. All readings will be in English and no previous background in Classical Studies is required.
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  • HSOC 200: Introduction to Environmental Analysis

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Giegengack. An introduction to philosophy, techniques, and selected details of the application of a broad spectrum of disciplines that relate to environmental problems.
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  • HSOC 202: The Scientific Revolution

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Staff. The emergence of science in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries as an activity that remade ideas of nature and society, that created new professions and institutions, and that ultimately transformed human consciousness. Classical approaches to science, challenges and new departures, the mutation of research inside and outside universities, new patterns in the dissemination of science and in public response.
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  • HSOC 206: Health and Disease in the Developing World

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. This course will explore the current context of health policy, health reform, and health service delivery in the developing world. After examining global economic and political context of health care, students will analyze the role that economic development plays in promoting or undermining health. Students will examine key disease challenges such as tuberculosis, malnutrition, and HIV/AIDS.
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  • HSOC 212: Science Technology & War

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Lindee. In this survey we explore the relationships between technical knowledge and warin the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We attend particularly to the centrality of bodily injury in the history of war. Topics include changing interpretations of the machine gun as inhumane or acceptable; the cult of the battleship; banned weaponry; submarines and masculinity; industrialized war and total war; trench warfare and mental breakdown; the atomic bomb and Cold War; chemical warfare in Viet Nam; and "television war" in the 1990s.
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  • HSOC 216: Women and Health

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. This course introduces students to anthropological and sociological perspectives on the intersection of gender and health. In the course we will examine several theoretical approaches to women and health, such as feminist and political economic perspectives. We will explore key women's health issues such as experiences with the medical establishment, health disparities along lines of race and class, reprodutive health, reproductive rights, body image and women's experiences with HIV/AIDS. These issues will be explored in the context of the United States and developing countries.
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