SOCI 508. Medical Sociology and Social Psychiatry.
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SOCI 508
Medical Sociology and Social Psychiatry.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Sociology (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The social construction of mental illness and disease, the personal and professional definition and recognition of illness, the distribution and determinants of illness, disease, sickness in the population, and the politics of medical research.
- Prerequisite: SOCI 309 or SOCI 310 or Permission of the Instructor.
- Note: Open to Social Studies of Medicine students.
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