HAPI Seminar

Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

There are a plethora of scholars and policymakers in the Washington DC area. Seminar topics may include cross-cultural views of disease, cultural change and health, the medicalization of normal life, corporate shaping of discourse about illness, the regulation of medical products, placebo effects, symptom formation and healing, the high costs of drugs, creating new diseases, and the opioid epidemic. The seminar series will include student interaction with speakers. Open to all departments.