SOSC 1801 Lecture Notes - Due Date, Ibm 7070, Intel 8089

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1801
• Professor: Jon Johnson

Document Summary

Health, illness and healing are concepts considered so familiar that they are widely taken for granted among the general populace. Nevertheless, concepts of health, illness and healing have been at the centre of the most politically and ideologically charged debates with which societies have grappled. While these debates largely take place beyond the awareness of the general public, their outcomes have direct implications for our health. In the occasional instances when the political and ideological nature of health, illness and healing become visible, they are labeled by media as health controversies". Therefore, health controversies provide an interesting and effective way to study the political, economic, socio-cultural and historical aspects of health, illness and healing. Through an examination of some of the major historic and current health controversies in. North america and globally, this course examines issues and themes that are foundational to a critical, interdisciplinary study of health and society.