The course examines the theoretical models sociologists employ in analysing relationships within the health-care system. It shows how the medical and other health professions have developed in Canada within the context of the growth and change of the medicare system, its organization, and administration.
This course seeks to describe and analyse contemporary rapid social change occurring in the knowledge, conduct and regulation of human reproduction, investigating this change across multiple institutional sites such as techno-science, kinship, the health system and social movements.
Drawing on traditional and contemporary theoretical frameworks for understanding disability, this course introduces students to the field of disability studies. Within a comparative perspective, the course explores legal frameworks, social policy, advocacy and rights movements, citizenship, identities and representations.
Crosslisted: GL/SOCI 3230 Social factors related to health and physical and mental illness will be discussed, including comparative examinations of the healing process. The social organization of systems of health care will be explored, including recruitment and socialization of health care personnel, hospitals as social institutions, stratification in medicine, emergence of professional medicine and alternatives […]
Crosslisted: AP/HREQ 3550, AP/SOCI 3560 This course examines interpersonal, cultural, demographic and political aspects of aging and retirement. Gender, class and other major factors are discussed, along with familial, government and self-help responses to seniors' needs.
Crosslisted: AK/POLS 3761 Examines Canadian federal, provincial and municipal programs aimed at those outside the paid labour force. Programs covered include health care, child care services and benefits, old age pensions, social assistance and disability. Covers current debates on future of the welfare state.
Contemporary and historical First Nations and Indigenous health issues are explored from a medical anthropological perspective. Using ethnographies, case studies and media-related resources, and focusing primarily within Canada, students critically analyze the cultural, political, and social contexts of First Nations health and illness. Priority access is given to upper level honours students.
Comparative perspectives on health, illness and medical systems are studied from the viewpoint of anthropology and related disciplines. Emphasis is placed on understanding the roles of the practitioner and patient in their social and cultural contexts and the importance of applied medical anthropology to the wider community.
This course is concerned with furthering the mutual relevance of social anthropology and psychiatry, and with developing a true anthropology of suffering. It integrates theories and findings from the fields of medical anthropology, transcultural psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine, in its focus on psychosocial stress research.
Crosslisted: AP/WMST 3553, GL/WMST 3553 Critically analyzes conceptualizations of women, mental health normalcy, mental illness and madness using intersectional and critical feminist frameworks. Draws on scholarly literature from a range of disciplines as well as first-person analyses of women and madness. Note: An introductory course in Gender and Women's Studies is recommended.