ETHN 142Medicine, Race, and the Global Politics of Inequality
Globalization fosters both the transmission of AIDS, cholera, tuberculosis, and other infectious diseases and gross inequalities in the resources available to prevent and cure them. This course focuses on how race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, and nation both shape and are shaped by the social construction of health and disease worldwide.
Prerequisites
None listed in the catalog.
Where it sits in degree plans
One of the options in (2)
- Ethnic Studies (B.A.)
- Public Health (B.S.)