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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
- September 8: Course Introduction
No tutorials this week.
- September 15: SARS, Mad Cows and Walkerton: Thinking about health, health care systems and fear.
Reading: Garrett, L. (2001). Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Chapter 1 - Kit)
- September 22: Western Biomedicine – The Professionals
Reading: Davies, C. (1995). Gender and the professional predicament in nursing. Bristol, PA: Open University Press. (Chapter 7 - Kit)
- September 29: Western Biomedicine – The Institutions
Reading: Wiersma, E. and Pedlar, A. (2008). The Nature of Relationships in Alternative Dementia Care Environments. Canadian Journal on Aging, 27 (1), 100-108. (Kit)
- October 6: Western Biomedicine - Health Technologies
Reading: Strickler, J. (1992). The new reproductive technology: problem or solution? Sociology of Health and Illness, 14/1, 111-32. (Kit)
Journals due: Block #1
No Class October 13 – Reading Week
- October 20: Medicalization – Childbirth and Motherhood
Reading: Singh, I. (2004) Doing their jobs: mothering with Ritalin in a culture of mother-blame, Social Science & Medicine, 59, 1193-1205. (Kit)
- October 27: Western Biomedicine - State Health Care
Reading: Low, J. and Theriault, L. (2008). Health promotion policy in Canada: lessons forgotten, lessons still to learn. Health Promotion International, 23/2, 200-206. Wil (Kit)
- November 3: Western Biomedicine as an imperial system – the case of First Nations Health in Canada
Reading: Grygier, P.S. (1994). A Long Way from Home: The Tuberculosis Epidemic among the Inuit, Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press. (Chapters 8 & 9 - Kit)
* Review essay due
- November 10: Drug Companies & the Medical-Industrial Complex
Reading: Stephens, T. and Brynner, R. (2001). Dark Remedy: The Impact of Thalidomide and Its Revival as a Vital Medicine, Cambridge, Mass: Perseus Publishing. (Kit)
- November 17: Non-Western Medicine
Reading: Helmann, C. (1978). Feed a Cold and Starve a Fever, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 2, 107-37. (Kit)
* Course Project handouts distributed & explained with ethics talk
* Journals due: Block #2
- November 24: Folk & Alternative Medicine
Reading: Connor, L. (2004). Relief, risk and renewal: mixed therapy regimes in an Australian suburb. Social Science & Medicine, 59, 1695-1705. (Kit)
* Mid-Year Exam questions distributed
- December 1: Mid-Year Exam (in class) [Handout - pdf]
(Revised Winter Term Handout [pdf])
- January 5: The Canadian Health Care System
Reading: Wilson, K. and Rosenberg, M. (2002). The geographies of crisis: exploring accessibility to health care in Canada, The Canadian Geographer, 46/3, 223-234 (Kit)
* Course project proposals due
- January 12: Informal/Non-Waged Health Care
Reading: Dyck, I. and Dossa, P. (2007). Place, health and home: Gender and migration in the construction of health space. Health and Place, 13/3, 691-701. (Kit)
* Journals due: Block #3
- January 19: What Makes People Healthy?
Reading: Raphael, D. (1996). Determinants of Health of North-American Adolescents: Evolving Definitions, Recent Findings, and Proposed Research Agenda. Journal of Adolescent Health , 19, 6-16.
* Course Project Proposals Returned In-Class
- January 26: Health Activism – Patient Rights Movements
Reading: Heap, M. et al, (2009). “We’ve moved away from disability as a health issue, it’s a human rights issue”; reflecting on 10 years of the right to equality in South Africa. Disability & Society, 24/7, 857-868.
- February 2: Health and First Nations Peoples
Reading: Weiser, J. (1998). Taking the Medicine Wheel to the Street: Counselling Aboriginal Street Youth about HIV/AIDS and Educating Those Who Help Them, in W. Rowe and B. Ryan, (eds.), Social Work and HIV: The Canadian Experience. Don Mills: Oxford University Press. (Kit)
- February 9: Aboriginal Health Activism – guest speaker
Reading: http://aht.ca/webfm_send/276
* Journals due: Block #4
- February 16: Mental Health – guest speaker
Reading: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxbw7dDMX60&feature=relmfu
* NO CLASS - February 23: Reading Week
- March 1: Global: Disease & the Developing World - HIV/AIDS in Africa
Reading: Stephen Lewis Foundation http://www.stephenlewisfoundation.org/ Go to NEWS AND RESOURCES & find the following articles in their NEWSLETTERS: Grassroots, Summer 2008 – “Psychosocial Support: The Practical Joy Playground,” and Grassroots, Summer 2009 – “Using Music When Words Fail.” *
* Course projects due
- March 8: Global: Food & Health
Reading: Read 3 or more of the following case studies from Fairtrade’s UK website:
• http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/producers/bananas/winfa/default.aspx
• http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/producers/coffee/gumutindo_coffee_cooperative_uganda/default.aspx
• http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/producers/cacao/toledo_cacao_growers_association_belize/default.aspx
• http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/producers/sugar/kasinthula_cane_growers_malawi/default.aspx
• http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/producers/tea/mabale_growers_tea_factory/default.aspx
- March 15: Local: Food & Health – guest speaker
Reading: Adam Gopnki, “New York Local: Eating the fruits of the five boroughs,” The New Yorker, September 3, 2007.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/09/03/070903fa_fact_gopnik
Series of videos on East New York’s urban agricultural movement. http://urbanomnibus.net/2009/01/urban-agriculture-east-new-york-agricultural-organizing/
Additional sites of interest:
http://thestop.org/food-justice
http://thestop.org/press
- March 22: Health and healing in the 21st Century
Tutorial Review
* Journal assignments due, along with Block #5 Journals
- March 29: Course Review + Final Exam Questions Distributed
PDF version of course readings
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