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SOCI 4114

Health Care and Society

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Fall 2021

Topics

  • host of health care issues ranging from patient/provider roles, to the provision of medical
  • critically examine the key issues in health care because of the discipline's ability to appreciate
  • the importance of broader contextual factors and to problematize assumptions that are often
  • social determinants of health in achieving health equity among Canadians, and, most recently
  • the impact of COVID-19 on the Canadian health care system
  • sociological perspective, drawing particularly on a political economy approach. Health care
  • funding and organizational issues, the medicalization of society, the shift to patient autonomy
  • and consumer empowerment, the popularly of complementary and alternative medicine
  • Indigenous health perspectives, contemporary midwifery, and emerging health social
  • not draw on the experience of COVID-19 as a real-life lesson from which to critically reflect
  • upon the value of the theories and concepts offered by the sociology of health care. While we
  • approach to this course remains firmly sociological

Readings

  • The following textbook available in print or digital versions through the LU bookstore: e Chappell, Neena L. and Margaret J. Penning. 2010. Understanding Health, Health Care, and Health Policy in Canada: Sociological Perspectives. Oxford: University Press. e Mykhalovskiy, Eric, et al. (editors). 2020. Health Matters: Evidence, Critical Social Science, and Health Care in Canada. Toronto: University Press. e Supplementary readings will be posted to D2L.
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