LSA Course Guide

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Class Detail:
WN 2012 Sociology SOC 575 - Sociology of Health and Health Care Section 001
Credits:	3
Repeatability:	May not be repeated for credit.
Primary Instructor:	Anspach,Renee
	(real time availability for all sections)

This course will explore the social aspects of health, medicine, and the health care system. We will examine such issues as the social causation of disease, relationships between doctors and patients, the health care professions, health and health care among women and the poor, and the current health care crises in the U.S. and cross-national contexts.

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Textbooks/Other Materials (data maintained by department in Wolverine Access)



ISBN: 9780520052680	Deciding who lives : fateful choices in the intensive care nursery, Author: Renee R. Anspach, Publisher: Univ. of California Press 1993
Required	Other Textbook Editions OK.

ISBN: 9780716709985	The sociology of health & illness : critical perspectives, Author: [edited by] Peter Conrad., Publisher: Worth 7th ed. 2005
Required

ISBN: 9780226066783	Forgive and remember : managing medical failure, Author: Charles L. Bosk., Publisher: University of Chicago Press 2. ed. 2003
Required

ISBN: 0226262286	Profession of Medicine, Author: Eliot Freidson, Publisher: Chicago 2ND 1988
Required