Description: Lecture, three hours. Introduction to sociocultural, historical, and global study of health and sickness. Use of case studies of globally important infectious and chronic diseases (diabetes, Ebola, HIV/AIDS) to analyze factors, including key dimensions of diversity (class, gender, urban/rural development) that influence how populations variably encounter, experience, understand, and cope with sickness. Special focus on relationships between Western medicine and traditional and alternative approaches to healing. Letter grading.

Units: 4.0