SOCI 5011
Global Public Health
Fall 2018
Topics
- History and sociological foundations of public health
- Social determinants of health, inequality and health promotion
- Syndemics and the global HIV pandemic
- Criminalization of disease transmission
- Public-health effects of austerity
- Vaccine hesitancy and religious or cultural influences
- Pharmaceuticalization and global clinical research
Readings
- Listed under Required Texts: Bramadat, Paul, Maryse Guay, Julie A. Bettinger, and Réal Roy, editors. Public Health in the Age of Anxiety: Religious and Cultural Roots of Vaccine Hesitancy in Canada. University Press (Toronto), 2017.
- Listed under Required Texts: Petryna, Adriana. When Experiments Travel: Clinical Trials and the Search for Human Subjects. University Press (Princeton), 2009.
- Listed under Required Texts: Pisani, Elizabeth. The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels and the Business of AIDS. Penguin, 2008.
- Listed under Required Texts: Stuckler, David, and Sanjay Basu. The Body Economic: Why Austerity Kills. Basic Books, 2013.
- Listed under Required Texts: Walzer Leavitt, Judith. Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public’s Health. Beacon, 1996.
- Additional required readings: Individual articles and book chapters supplied as PDFs through the course website or available online; the syllabus includes a weekly bibliography.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- syllabus ↗Fall 2018
- Course source ↗
- Additional readings or course materials are supplied through the course site or course pack.; Identity resolved as SOCI 5011: title header, filename and department link all say 5011, and current catalogue SOCI 5011 has the same title. The first description sentence says SOCI 5115, an internal inconsistency; there is no SOCI 5611 in the source. Do not treat 5115 as an additional syllabus course. Header says Fall 2018 although an assessment due date retains April 2018. The required-text paragraph says three books but lists five; all five are preserved without deciding which three were intended. The source calls itself a general outline subject to change. Publisher wording is kept as stated. These are the core books, not the full weekly article bibliography.