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Program Requirements
Revision, August 2011. Start of revision.Complementary Courses (18 credits)
18 credits of complementary courses; 6 credits chosen from each of the following groups:
History of Medicine
Anthropology of Medicine
Sociology of Medicine
History of Medicine
6 credits from:
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HIST 249 Health and the Healer in Western History (3 credits)
Overview
History : The natural history of health and disease and the development of the healing arts, from antiquity to the beginning of modern times. The rise of "western" medicine. Health and healing as gradually evolving aspects of society and culture.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Wallis, Faith; Weisz, George (Fall)
Restriction: Not open to students who took HIST 349 prior to Winter 2006.
Note: Also available to first-year medical students in their options program.
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HIST 319 The Scientific Revolution (3 credits)
Overview
History : The shift from the medieval to the modern view of man's place in the universe that took place between Copernicus and Newton and its intellectual and social implications.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Boss, Valentin (Fall)
Prerequisite: a 200-level course in early modern history, or a survey course in philosophy, or permission of the instructor
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HIST 330 Science in the Medieval West (3 credits)
Overview
History : The history of ideas about the physical world and its content, the nature of scientific thinking, and the possibilities of human intervention in the natural world held in Western Europe in the Middle Ages (ca. AD300-1500), with particular attention to their social, intellectual, cultural and religious context.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
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HIST 335 Science and Medicine in Canada (3 credits)
Overview
History : The social and intellectual history of science and medicine in Canada, from early exploration, through the rise of learned societies, universities and professional organizations, to World War II.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken HIST 212
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HIST 348 China: Science-Medicine-Technology (3 credits)
Overview
History : An introduction to traditional Chinese ideas about human beings and their relationship with heaven and earth. Special emphasis on the history of medicine and the body, alchemy, geomancy and divination techniques, agriculture and sericulture, astronomy, and engineering and their relation to changing social and cultural formations.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
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HIST 356 Medicine in the Medieval West (3 credits)
Overview
History : The history of ideas about the human body, disease and therapeutics and the diverse practices of medicine in western Europe in the Middle Ages (ca. AD 300-1500), with particular attention to their social, intellectual, cultural and religious context.
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: Wallis, Faith (Winter)
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HIST 381 Colonial Africa: Health/Disease (3 credits)
Overview
History : A study of the impact of disease on African societies over the last three centuries. Topics include: the efforts of Africans to control their ecology, and to maintain their own medical traditions; the wider African responses to Western bio-medicine, and the relationship of disease to nutrition, demography, and public health.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
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HIST 424 Gender, Sexuality & Medicine (3 credits)
Overview
History : Gender, sexuality, and medicine since the colonial era, with a focus on North American experience. Topics will include reproductive medicine (puberty, childbirth, fertility control, menopause), changing perceptions of men's and women's health needs and risks, and ideas about sexual behaviour and identity.
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: Tone, Andrea (Winter)
Prerequisite: A 300-level History course in gender, sexuality or medicine or permission of instructor.
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HIST 430 Topics in Modern Medicine (3 credits)
Overview
History : Selected topics in the history of medicine in the 19th, 20th and/or 21st centuries will be explored through discussion of primary and secondary historical sources.
Terms: Fall 2011, Winter 2012
Instructors: Szabo, Jason (Fall) Szabo, Jason (Winter)
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HIST 449 Medicine in the Ancient World (3 credits)
Overview
History : The evolution of ideas about the human body, disease, and therapeutics, and the diverse practices of medicine in Graeco-Roman antiquity (ca 800BC - ca 600CE), with particular attention given to their social, political, cultural and religious context.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
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HIST 452 Medicine in Europe 1500-1700 (3 credits)
Overview
History : The history of the evolution of ideas about the human body, disease and therapeutics and the diverse practices of medicine in Western Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries, with particular attention to their social, political, cultural and religious context.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
- HIST 457 Topics in Medical History (3 credits)
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HIST 458 Modern Medicine: Seminar (3 credits)
Overview
History : The emergence of scientific medicine, medical professionalization, the development of public health and the process of medical specialization since 1700.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Schlich, Thomas Andreas (Fall)
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken 101-459D
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HIST 459 Modern Medicine: Research (3 credits)
Overview
History : Supervised design, research, writing, and discussion of a major research paper on a theme in the history of modern medicine since 1700.
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: Schlich, Thomas Andreas (Winter)
Prerequisite: HIST 458
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken 101-459D
Priority given to students in Honours History and students registered for the Minor in Social Studies of Medicine.
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HIST 466 Seminar: Medieval Medicine (3 credits)
Overview
History : Models of the body, disease and medical intervention current in western Europe between 400 and 1500 AD will be examined through analysis of primary sources in translation, and modern historical scholarship. The sequel to this course is HIST 496.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
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HIST 496 Research: Medieval Medicine (3 credits)
Overview
History : Supervised design, research, writing, and discussion of a theme in the history of western European medicine, 400 - 1500 AD.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
- Restriction: Open only to students who have taken HIST 466
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WMST 513 Gender, Race and Science (3 credits)
Overview
Women's Studies : This course is a philosophical exploration of the nature of science concerning sex, gender, race and racial stereotypes, and the construction of "womanhood". The social history/biography of women and minorities in science will be studied to develop a critique of biological determinism and explore the meaning and possibility of a "feminist science".
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Anthropology of Medicine
6 credits from:
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ANTH 227 Medical Anthropology (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Beliefs and practices concerning sickness and healing are examined in a variety of Western and non-Western settings. Special attention is given to cultural constructions of the body and to theories of disease causation and healing efficacy. Topics include international health, medical pluralism, transcultural psychiatry, and demography.
Terms: Fall 2011, Summer 2012
Instructors: Rees, Tobias (Fall) Thiam, Sara (Summer)
Fall
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ANTH 302 New Horizons in Medical Anthropology (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Using recent ethnographies as textual material, this course will cover theoretical and methodological developments in medical anthropology since the early 1990's. Topics include a reconsideration of the relationship between culture and biology, medical pluralism revisited, globalization and health and disease, and social implications of new biomedical technologies.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
- Winter
- Prerequisite: ANTH 227
- Restriction: Anthropology program students.
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ANTH 314 Psychological Anthropology 01 (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : A survey of current theories and methods employed in psychological anthropology. Some areas considered are: cross-cultural studies of socialization and personality development; cultural factors in mental illness; individual adaptations to rapid socio-cultural change.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
- Fall
- Prerequisite: Any Anthropology course
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ANTH 214
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ANTH 407 Anthropology of the Body (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : This course will survey theoretical approaches used over the past 100 years, and then focus on contemporary debates using case studies. The nature/culture mind/ body, subject/object, self/other dichotomies central to most work of the body will be problematized.
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: Hyde, Sandra (Winter)
Winter
Prerequisite: ANTH 227 and (1) 300-level anthropology course, and Honours/Major/Minor status in Anthropology or Social Studies of Medicine, or permission of instructor.
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ANTH 423 Mind, Brain and Psychopathology (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Evolutionary origins of the human mind and the 'social brain', and the psychopathologies that are said to provide access to this evolutionary history, through the perspective of the anthropology of science and psychiatry.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Young, Allan (Fall)
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ANTH 438 Topics in Medical Anthropology (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Conceptions of health and illness and the form and meaning that illness take are reflections of a particular social and cultural context. Examination of the metaphoric use of the body, comparative approaches to healing, and the relationship of healing systems to the political and economic order and to development.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Young, Allan (Fall)
Fall
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 227 and Honours/Major/Minor status in Anthropology or Minor Concentration in Social Studies of Medicine or permission of instructor.
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ANTH 439 Theories of Development (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Comparison of alternative theories of development, as applied to two or more major regions of the Third World. The intellectual origins, logical structures and empirical bases of the alternative theories and comparative empirical testing as they apply to specific controversies in development studies. The interpretation of these theories and controversies.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
- Prerequisite: ANTH 212 or permission of instructor
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ANTH 443 Medical Anthropological Theory (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : This course is intended to provide a comprehensive survey of the literature that constitutes the theoretical and conceptual core of medical anthropology. Emphasis is given to (1) the ethnographic sources of these ideas, (2) their epistemology, and (3) their methodological implications.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
- Fall
- Prerequisites: ANTH 227 and Honours/Major/Minor status in Anthropology or permission of instructor.
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ANTH 480 Special Topic 5 (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Supervised reading in advanced special topics under direction of a member of staff.
Terms: Fall 2011, Winter 2012, Summer 2012
Instructors: Bisson, Michael (Winter)
Fall
Prerequisite: Completion of all available courses relevant to the topic and consent of the instructor
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ANTH 481 Special Topic 6 (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Supervised reading in advanced special topics under direction of a member of staff.
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: Rudiak-Gould, Peter; Kienzler, Hanna (Winter)
Winter
Prerequisite: Completion of all available courses relevant to the topic and consent of the instructor
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ANTH 482 Special Topic 7 (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Supervised reading in advanced special topics under direction of a member of staff.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
- Fall
- Prerequisite: Completion of all available courses relevant to the topic and consent of the instructor
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ANTH 483 Special Topic 8 (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Supervised reading in advanced special topics under direction of a member of staff.
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
- Winter
- Prerequisite: Completion of all available courses relevant to the topic and consent of the instructor
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ANTH 484 Special Topic 9 (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Supervised reading in advanced special topics under direction of a member of staff.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
- Fall
- Prerequisite: Completion of all available courses relevant to the topic and consent of the instructor
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ANTH 485 Special Topic 10 (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Supervised reading in advanced special topics under direction of a member of staff.
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
- Winter
- Prerequisite: Completion of all available courses relevant to the topic and consent of the instructor
Sociology of Medicine
6 credits from:
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SOCI 225 Medicine and Health in Modern Society (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Socio-medical problems and ways in which sociological analysis and research are being used to understand and deal with them. Canadian and Québec problems include: poverty and health; mental illness; aging; death and dying; professionalism; health service organization.
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: Berry, Sarah (Winter)
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SOCI 309 Health and Illness (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Health and illness as social rather than purely bio-medical phenomena. Topics include: studies of ill persons, health care occupations and organizations; poverty and health; inequalities in access to and use of health services; recent policies, ideologies, and problems in reform of health services organization.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Quesnel Vallée, Amélie (Fall)
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SOCI 310 Sociology of Mental Disorder (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Data and theories of mental disorders. Transcultural psychiatry, psychiatric epidemiology, stress, labelling, mental health care delivery, the family, positive mental health and the "sick" society in the framework of sociological theories of stratification, organization and social psychology.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Burgos, Giovani (Fall)
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SOCI 338 Introduction to Biomedical Knowledge (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : The dynamics of biomedical disciplines and specialties. Social, scientific, political and commercial aspects of biomedical research. The organization of work in clinical and fundamental research and its consequences on the choice of research topics.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
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SOCI 365 Health and Development (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Main concepts and controversies linking health to broader social and economic conditions in low income countries. Topics include the demographic and epidemiological transitions, the health and wealth conundrum, the social determinants of health, health as an economic development strategy, and the impact of the AIDS pandemic.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Clark, Shelley (Fall)
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SOCI 390 Gender and Health (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Key conceptual and substantive issues in gender and health since c1950: stratified medicalization of women's and men's health; social movements in health including the women's health movement; gender inequality in morbidity and mortality; gender, power and control in patient/physician interactions; embodied experience; politics and policies of gender and health.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Fishman, Jennifer (Fall)
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SOCI 425 Sociology of the Body (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Sociological examination of the human body as a cultural phenomenon that intersects with identity, health, illness, disability and medicine. Exploration of meanings attributed to human bodies as well as the body as a site of social interaction.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
- Prerequisite: SOCI 225 or Permission of Instructor.
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SOCI 508 Medical Sociology and Social Psychiatry (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : 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.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Burgos, Giovani (Fall)
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SOCI 515 Medicine and Society (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : The sociology of health and illness. Reading in areas of interest, such as: the sociology of illness, health services occupations, organizational settings of health care, the politics of change in national health service systems, and contemporary ethical issues in medical care and research.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
- Prerequisite: Undergraduate students require permission of instructor
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SOCI 525 Health Care Systems in Comparative Perspective (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Comparative perspective to illustrate processes involved in the development and evolution of health care systems around the world. Countries examined will represent different welfare state regimes, health care system typologies, levels of development and wealth.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Quesnel Vallée, Amélie (Fall)
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
Restriction: Not open to students who are taking or have taken EPIB 525.
Note: This course is cross-listed in Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and in Sociology.
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SOCI 538 Selected Topics in Sociology of Biomedical Knowledge (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : The seminar will examine recent work in the sociology of biomedical knowledge. It will focus on the technological shaping of biomedical knowledge, i.e., on the impact of new technologies and equipments on the development of biomedical knowledge.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
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