| Course Title: Advanced Topics in Politics: 'Health and Inequality' |
| Start Date: 09/06/2023 End Date: 12/19/2023 |
| Term: Fall Semester 2023 |
| Description: This course is designed to provide students with both an in-depth study of the political and social determinants of health and with queer, feminist, and postcolonial theorizations of health and the body. We will question and theorize what "health" is as well as study how economic and social inequality distribute unequal life chances. We will examine how race, class, gender, sexuality, and citizenship combine to help some survive and even profit from disease and illness while others perish and experience shame, stigma, and financial insecurity. We will study how politicians, scientists, and public health officials have treated different communities and how various marginalized communities have fought back for improved life chances. |
| Distribution(s): III - Social Sciences , SI - Speaking-Intensive , WI - Writing-Intensive , TP - Topics Course |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Kevin Henderson | khenderson@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 09/06/2023 - 12/19/2023 | Seminar | Tuesday and Thursday | 03:15PM - 04:30PM | SKNR - Skinner Hall | 210 | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| Prereq: 8 credits in the department. | Take previously | Required |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Course Tags | ||
| POLIT-THRY | POLIT-THRY: Politics - Theory subfield | This course has been approved to count towards the Theory subfield of the Politics major (100-200-level courses only) and minor (all courses). |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| None |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Closed | Capacity: 18 | Enrollment: 18 | Available: 0 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| Title: Health Communism Author: Adler-Bolton, Beatrice Copyright: 2022 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9781839765162 Publisher: Verso |
Required | 24.95 |
| Title: The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance Author: Chavez, Karma Copyright: 2021 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780295748979 Publisher: University of Washington Press |
Recommended | 30.00 |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is the complete book list for this class. |
| Instructor's comments about the book list: "The Borders of AIDS" is available to download and print through MHC access on JSTOR, so you only need to purchase that text if you need or want a bounded hard copy (which is recommend--there is evidence students learn better from paper bound books). "Health Communism" will need to be purchased, but we are not reading that text until the end of November. |