Advocacy, Politics, and Disease
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Overview
Subject area
URBST
Catalog Number
743
Course Title
Advocacy, Politics, and Disease
Department(s)
Description
This course is concerned with the politics of emergent diseases, the controversies and conflicts among various social groups and the impact on whether or not an emergent disease is recognized as a legitimate ailment. These groups might include communities of sufferers, "disease champions," medical specialists, and their disciplinary organizations, biomedical researchers and their institutions, politicians and political institutions at the local, state and federal levels, and governmental bureaucracies. It also examines factors that determine what level of priority emergent diseases receive in the allotment of scarce financial and bio/scientific resources. The course emphasizes diseases found disproportionately in urban populations, but not to the exclusion of diseases found scattered in the general population.
Typically Offered
Fall, Spring
Academic Career
Graduate
Liberal Arts
Yes
Credits
Minimum Units
3
Maximum Units
3
Academic Progress Units
3
Repeat For Credit
No
Components
Name
Lecture
Hours
3