Aug 04, 2025  
Undergraduate College Catalog 2025-2026 
    
Undergraduate College Catalog 2025-2026

SOC 225 - Health and Medicine


This course will examine medicine as an institution and explore the consequences of its organization for public policy. Should doctors control health care? Should medicine be socialized? Has medicine made us healthier? Does our system of health care devalue women? The course will investigate these and other questions.

Credits 4



Compass Attributes
Social Science, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars