SOC 83A — Sociology of Body and Health
[ deis-us ss ]May not be taken for credit by students who took SOC 189a in prior years.
Explores theoretical considerations of the body as a cultural phenomenon intersecting with health, healing, illness, disease, and medicine. Focuses on how gender, race, class, religion, and other dimensions of social organization shape individual and population health. Usually offered every year.
Sara Shostak