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SOCI 2509

Sociology of Health and Illness

1.0 credits · Undergraduate

Winter 2026

Topics

  • notes
  • “The Menu”: this serves as an overall guide only. Specifics \ updates

Readings

  • Required: Raphael, D. Health and Illness – 3rd Edition. About Canada (series). Fernwood Publishers, Halifax & Winnipeg. ISBN: 978-177-363-6603 [2024] URL: About Canada: Health and Illness, 3rd Edition – Fernwood Publishing
  • Required: See picture of required text on the first page of this outline.
  • Required: COST: ~ 30.00 Canadian.
  • Required: From the above required text
  • Required: ----------------------------------- + Required Textbook - 2: [FREE]
  • Required: OER Course Text: BC Open Campus - OpenEd – double click on blue link below ↓ (if link does not work, try using your computer browser - type in title)
  • Required: Northern and Indigenous Health and Healthcare
  • Required: Find Open Textbooks – BCcampus OpenEd Resources [2018]
  • Required: ↑ From the above OER textbook 2, we will review the following:
  • : D2L in a Nutshell - YouTube ↗
    Source-linked resource
Fall 2022

Topics

  • that social factors have in influencing the health and illness of individuals, groups, and society
  • with contemporary, real world examples of health and illness as well as provide additional
  • health, and recent changes to health care in Canada. Upon graduation, students pursuing
  • researchers and practitioners from diverse academic and professional backgrounds. This course
  • empirically-based approach to understanding health, disease, illness, and health care
  • health sociology. The learning objectives are
  • To learn about and distinguish between the social, economic, and political factors that
  • shape medicine as an institution and the experience of wellness
  • To develop a critical perspective by challenging taken-for-granted notions of medicine
  • including dominant and “alternative” conceptions of wellness and of health care
  • To demonstrate skills at reading, critical analysis, note taking, and synthesizing
  • sociological theory and research into academic expression
  • Test 1 Week of 25%
  • Test 2 Week of 25%
  • Test 3 Week of 25%
  • Online Quizzes Ongoing 25%
  • Extra Credit see schedule below 1 point each

Readings

  • Strohschein, Lisa and Rose Weitz. 2014. The Sociology of Health, Illness & Health Care in Canada: A Critical Approach. Toronto: Nelson Education. Available in e-format at:
  • Armstrong, Pat and Hugh Armstrong. 2016. About Canada: Health Care, 2nd Edition. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing. Available in e-format at:
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