Gender & Multicult Issues in Health Care

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This course will examine ways in which culture and gender affect healthcare and approaches to medicine in the United States today. In particular we will explore gender role expectations, the rise of the “women’s health” movement, ethno medicine, and the psychology of health. The course also explores various ways in which individuals, households, larger groups of people and various medical systems and practitioners attempt to define, interpret and create health, as well as problems that arise from perceptions of difference.