SOAN 20201 - Globalizing Health

Course Credit: 1
(ANTH, SOCI)
GLOBALIZING HEALTH An examination of public health issues from a global perspective. The twenty-first century has presented numerous public health challenges, such as the AIDS crisis, the rise of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, and trafficking in human organs and tissues. Such problems can only be addressed by a combination of local and global responses. This course applies contemporary globalization theories to such public health challenges, and critically examines the ways in which Western medical techniques and attitudes toward health are disseminated throughout the world, and the tensions generated in local cultures by this globalization of health. Alternate Years. [C, D, GE, HSS, SJ]