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  • HSOC 230: Fundamentals of Epidemiology

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Kanetsky. This course introduces students to the basic tenets of epidemiology and how to quantitatively study health at the population level. Students learn about measures used to describe populations with respect to health outcomes and the inherent limitations in these measures and their underlying sources of data. Analytic methods used to test scientific questions about health outcomes in populations then are covered, again paying particular attention to the strength and weaknesses of the various approaches.
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  • HSOC 238: Medical Anthropology

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Barg. Introduction to medical anthropology takes central concepts in anthropology -- culture, adaptation, human variation, belief, political economy, the body -- and applies them to human health and illness. Students explore key elements of healing systems including healing technologies and healer-patient relationships. Modern day applications for medical anthropology are stressed.
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  • HSOC 250: Social History of Mental Illness

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Tighe. This course will explore the history of mental illness in the United States, from the eighteenth century to the present. It will focus on a set of questions: to what extent is mental illness socially constructed How does society arrive at its concepts of and attitudes towards both emotional and behavioral disturbance as well as notions of adjustment and normality The asylum movement of the nineteenth century, the rise of psychiatry as a medical specialty, the role of the media and lay public in shaping its identity, legal issues such as commitment and competence, as well as the development of psychopharmacology & an increasingly biologically based psychiatry in the twentieth century will be examined.
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  • HSOC 252: Law and Medicine

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Staff. This course is intended to give students an in-depth understanding of the ways in which medical practice and medical decision-making are guided by modern American law. Students will learn how the law's regulatory powers have been used to set boundaries in medicine and, in turn, how medical practice and theory have informed modern legal develoments. The field of health care law sits at a crossroads where many of life's "big questions" converge, and consequently is shaped, more than any other legal discipline, by social, ethical, cultural and economic influences. By the end of this course, students should have an understanding both of the current state of American health law, and of the social forces that have shaped its historical development.
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  • HSOC 273: Law,Medicine,and Public Policy

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Bosk. First the course will develop a persepctive for viewing social problems drawn largely on my own work as well as that of Gusfelds and Edelman. Next we will explore the domains to which a physician's expertise is limited using Weber, Rosenberg and others. We will then develop a perspective from anthropological and sociological literature on the courts as public arenas for articulating Durkheimian collective conscience. All of this theory building is in the firsthalf of the seminar. The second half of the course will involve intensive case study of a few dilemmas which have wended their way through the courts. I intend to look at "Baby Doe Regulations" and the Intensive Care Nursery; the problem of the cessation of life-supporting treatment; the legitimacy of mass screen - be it for genetic defects or substance abuse; and the propriety of surrogate motherhood.
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  • HSOC 275: Medical Sociology

    1.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Schnittker. This course is designed to give the student a general introduction to the sociological study of medicine. Medical sociology is a broad field, covering topics as diverse as the institution and profession of medicine, the practice of medical care, and the social factors that contribute to sickness and well-being. While we will not cover everything, we will attempt to cover as much of the field as possible through four central thematic units: (1) the organization of development of the profession of medicine, (2) the delivery of health-care, (3) social cultural factors in defining health, and (4) the social causes of illness. Throughout the course, our discussions will be designed to understand the sociological perspective and encourage the application of such a perspective to a variety of contemporary medical issues.
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  • HSOC 305: Health and Society in South Asia

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Sheehan. The countries of South Asia have traditional medical systems like Ayurveda and Unani, major public health traditions and problems, as well as the global isses of health delivery and costs for aging populations, in addition to changing threats like HIV. Health service delivery is highly uneven by income and education group as well as by gender and region, and is heavily conditioned by the cultures of the area which influence attitudes to preventive measures like nutrition and hygiene. This course provides an overview of these issues.
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  • HSOC 310: Anthropology and Biomedical Science

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Staff. An examination of the role of anthropology in biomedical research, focusing upon health and disease as outcomes of biocultural systems. Where possible, students will engage in collection and analysis of data and the dissemination of the results.
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