RELGST 1171 - HEALTH AND ILLNESS IN ISRAELI SOCIETY

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course introduces students to the health field from a socio-cultural perspective and provides an overview of the Israeli social determinants of health, the experience of illness, the doctor-patient relationships, and the health care system in Israel. The course aims to introduce the critical thinking of medical sociology/anthropology, which examine health and illness as a social, cultural, and political phenomena. These perspectives start with the understanding that we cannot grasp problem associate with health and illness based on the biological phenomena and medical knowledge alone. Therefore, during the course, students will learn about different social forces, including the role of the state, politics, social power relations and culture in shaping the medical field. In the course, we will focus on several main issues and concepts within Israeli society related to health and illness: health and reproduction; the intersection of health and the Jewish religion; mental health in Israel; the intersection of health with ethnicity and gender, bioethics in Israel, and more.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade

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