Gender, Health, & Medicine

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Students investigate gendered health issues from a variety of perspectives, and take an historical look at how health treatments have differed based on gender. Key questions examined include: What are the realtionships between gender, health, and medicine; what are the issues for womend as patients and healers; and what role does sexism, racism, classism, etc. play in the development and delivery of healthcare in the U.S.? Restricted to undergraduate juniors and seniors.