Medical Sociology

Comprehensive Bachelor of Science in Sociology covering sociological theory, social stratification, research methods, deviance and crime, family, urban sociology, education, medical sociology, and contemporary issues

Medical Sociology

Social Determinants of Health

Marmot's gradient, Whitehall studies, health disparities by class/race/gender, stress and health, neighborhood health effects, life course epidemiology

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Mental Illness and Society

Goffman's Asylums (1961), deinstitutionalization, biomedicalization of mental health, stigma (Link & Phelan), and the social origins of depression.

Medicalization and Mental Health

Medicalization thesis (Conrad), ADHD and depression as social constructs, pharmaceutical industry, Goffman's asylums, anti-psychiatry, Foucault on madness

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Medicalization and Pharmaceuticalization

Peter Conrad on how everyday conditions become defined and treated as medical problems, from ADHD to menopause, and the role of pharmaceutical marketing.

Global Health and Health Systems

Comparative health systems (Beveridge, Bismarck, National Health Insurance), global health inequalities, epidemiological transition, HIV/AIDS, WHO, health as human right

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Health Inequalities and the Social Gradient

The Whitehall studies (Marmot), fundamental causes (Link & Phelan), racial health disparities, and the COVID-19 amplification of existing inequalities.