BIO 3048 Biology of Health and Illness
Special attention will be given to exploring the roots of our present health care system in nineteenth century institutions; the changing character of relationships between caretakers and ill persons; the importance of metaphoric conceptualizations of bodily and social well-being; the place of illness in social life, the question of medical practice as an ?art? or ?science?; and the meaning of knowledge, power, and responsibility in healing relationships and institutional contexts.