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SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH AND ILLNESS
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Lutfey, Karen. 2010. “SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH AND ILLNESS”. TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology, April. Washington DC: American Sociological Association. https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/sociology-of-health-and-illness.

Abstract

In this course, we begin with the idea that we cannot understand the topics of health and illness simply by looking at biological phenomena and medical knowledge, but, instead, we must also consider a variety of social, political, economic, and cultural forces. Sociologists of health and illness (also known as "medical sociologists") use sociological...

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Subject Area(s):
Medical Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 300

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