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SOC 3703
SOC 3703 - Sociology of Health, Illness, and Medicine
The distribution of illness, focusing on race, class, and gender; illness experience; social-historical development of the medical system in the United States; changing roles of health care providers; interactions between patients and health care providers; cross-cultural comparisons of health care systems; the political economy of health care. Prerequisite: Soc 1033 or permission of instructor.