HAPI Seminar

Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

The weekly seminar series will be a highlight of the program. There are a plethora of scholars and policymakers in the Washington DC area and faculty from other countries that are frequent visitors; we plan to have a dynamic, diverse group of speakers. 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 and other audience members and will be followed within the next few days by small faculty-run groups in which students will assess the speakers’ evidence, analysis, and rhetoric. Evaluation will be based on a short paper and active participation. *Please note that HAPI 603 is 1-credit and HAPI 604 is 0-credit.