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Mar 12, 2025
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SOC189M PO - The Medicalization of Social LifeWhen Offered: Spring 2022
Instructor(s): G. Yeritsian
Credit: 1
This course will explore the phenomenon of medicalization, or the process by which more and more of social life and human behavior have come to be understood and governed through medical categories. Readings will be derived from empirical sociology, intellectual history, and critical social theory including the likes of Ilich, Foucault, and Agamben. Policy responses to the coronavirus pandemic will be highlighted as an especially salient case study of medicalization. Letter grade only.
Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
Area 2
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