Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Medicine: From the Plantation to the Clinic

5 credits

Interdisciplinary humanities-based approach toward the intersection of gender, race, and medicine. Scientific constructions of race, gender, and sexuality. Examines the role medicine has played in social orientations to race, gender, and sexuality. Legacy of slavery, and medical institutions. Recommended: courses and topics related to American Ethnic Studies, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, Pre-Med, Public Health, Anthropology, Sociology, and Nutrition.