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AP/SOSC 2110 6.0
A Critical Study of Health & Society
Fall / Winter 2011 - 2012
Course Director: Megan J. Davies, Ph D

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Course Calendar - Fall Term

  1. September 8: Course Introduction

  2. September 15: SARS, Mad Cows and Walkerton: Thinking about health, health care systems and fear.
    Film: Secrets of the Dead – ITV Documentary

  3. September 22: Western Biomedicine – The Professionals
    No Film

  4. September 29:  Western Biomedicine – The Institutions
    Film: Not My Home

  5. October 6: Western Biomedicine - Health Technologies 
    Film: Life Support, Part 1

No Class October 13 – Reading Week

  1. October 20: Medicalization – Childbirth and Motherhood
    Film: Life Support, Part 2

  2. October 27: Western Biomedicine - State Health Care
    Film: Tommy Douglas, The Greatest Canadian - CBC

  3. November 3: Western Biomedicine as an imperial system – the case of First Nations Health in Canada
    Film: Coppermine

  4. November 10: Drug Companies & the Medical-Industrial Complex
    Film: Drug Deals

  5. November 17: Non-Western Medicine
    No Film

  6. November 24: Folk & Alternative Medicine
    No Film

  7. December 1:  Mid-Year Exam (in class)
    No Film

Course Calendar: Winter Term

  1. January 5: The Canadian Health Care System
    Film: Emergency

  2. January 12: Informal/Non-Waged Health Care
    Film: When the Day Comes

  3. January 19: What Makes People Healthy?
    Film: to be determined

  4. January 26: Health Activism – Patient Rights Movements
    Film: Shameless: the Art of Disability

  5. February 2: Health and First Nations Peoples
    Film: to be determined

  6. February 9: Aboriginal Health Activism – guest speaker
    No Film

  7. February 16: Mental Health – guest speaker
    No Film

* NO CLASS - February 23: Reading Week

  1. March 1: Global: Disease & the Developing World -  HIV/AIDS in Africa
    Film: Coming to Say Goodbye

  2. March 8: Global: Food & Health
     Film: to be determined

  3. March 15: Local: Food & Health – guest speaker
    No Film

  4. March 22:  Health and healing in the 21st Century
    Film: to be determined

  5. March 29: Course Review + Final Exam Questions Distributed
    No Film

 
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