Health and Society

University of Chicago

Bachelor's degree

In Chicago (USA)

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  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Chicago (USA)

The Health and Society minor explores the social, political, and economic processes that shape individual and population health. Disability, experiences of illness, categories of disorder, ideals of well-being, and models of medical intervention can all vary between cultural settings and across history. Rapid changes in medicine and biotechnology create new understandings and expectations about illness, health, and well-being. At the same time, inequalities in access to care and in health outcomes across populations, in the United States and globally, have become important to conversations in policy and practice alike. At the individual level, how and where one lives may influence a range of conditions and outcomes including mental health, the onset of diabetes, and the length of life. Health is also influenced—in both positive and negative ways—by our relationships and social networks. Finally, people's life chances and health trajectories form within frameworks of health care policy and systems of provision and exposure to environments that reflect historical legacies, economic activity, and political choices. To understand health in its broader contexts, this minor encompasses a range of disciplines and methods in the social sciences, and differential emphases on theory, practice, and policy implications.A minor in Health and Society will provide a background for medical school, the allied health professions, public health, health policy, health advocacy, the study of law with an emphasis on health, and doctoral work in a range of social science disciplines.

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5801 South Ellis Avenue, 60637

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  • Medical training
  • Medical
  • Public
  • Mental Health

Course programme

Introduction to Health and Society
Students may only include one of the following methods courses toward the minor: ANTH 21420 Ethnographic Methods, CHDV 20100 Human Development Research Design, CHDV 20101 Applied Statistics in Human Development Research, ECON 21010 Statistical Methods in Economics, SOCI 20001 Sociological Methods, or SOCI 20004 Statistical Methods of Research.
Ethnographic Methods
Human Development Research Design
Applied Statistics in Human Development Research
Statistical Methods in Economics
Sociological Methods
Statistical Methods of Research
Anthropology of Disability
The Lived Body: Anthropology, Materiality, Meaningful Practice
Magic, Science, and Religion
Disability in Local and Global Contexts
Lab, Field, and Clinic: History and Anthropology of Medicine and the Life Sciences
Reproductive Worlds
Body & Soul: The Anthropology of Religion, Health, & Healing
Anthropology of the Body
Introduction to Human Development
Inequality, Health and the Life Course
Darwinian Health
Medical Anthropology
Culture, Mental Health, and Psychiatry
Health, Medicine, and Human Rights
History of Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences
Disability and Design
Inequality and the Social Safety Net: Theory, Empirics, and Policies
Inequality: Origins, Dimensions, and Policy
Economics and Regulation of Health Care Markets: Theory and Empirics
Medical Ethics: Who Decides and on What Basis?
Introduction to Science Studies
Experiencing Madness: Empathic Methods in Cultural Psychiatry
Tutorial: Romantic Bodies: Theater in the History of Science and Medicine
Science, Culture, and Society in Western Civilization I
Science, Culture, and Society in Western Civilization II: History of Medicine I
Science, Culture, and Society in Western Civilization II: Early Modern Period
Science, Culture, and Society in Western Civilization III
History of Death
History of Medicine
History Colloquium: Medicine and Society
Introduction to Health and Society
Health in a Changing America: Social Context and Human Rights
The Politics of Health Care
Global Health Metrics
Health Economics and Public Policy
Healthcare and Healthcare Reform
Biological Clocks and Behavior
Social Neuroscience
Child Development in the Classroom
Introduction to Learning and Memory
Sociology of Human Sexuality
Urban Health
Sociology of Health and Aging
Sociology of Medicine
Topics in Behavioral and Social Sciences Relevant to Medicine
Key Issues in Healthcare: An Interdisciplinary Case Studies Approach
Health and Aging Policy
Drugs: Culture and Context

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