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2004-2005 Pilot Curriculum General Requirement Course Descriptions
This course fulfills Category II of the General Education Requirement.
Faculty:
| Janet
Tighe |
Meeting Times:
| LEC | COLL 002 401 | T & R | 10:30 - 12:00 |
| REC | COLL 002 402 | F | 9:00 - 10:00 |
| REC | COLL 002 403 | F | 10:00 - 11:00 |
| REC | COLL 002 404 | F | 10:00 - 11:00 |
| REC | COLL 002 405 | F | 11:00 - 12:00 |
Course
Description:
What
is health? What is disease? Such seemingly simple questions elicit a diverse
set of answers. This is true even if the population surveyed is confined
to the United States. If we expanded our enquiry to include other nations
and cultures, the number of answers would be truly staggering. Yet, we
live in an era in which there is a dominant model of health and disease—the
biomedical model—and many believe that a unified systematic approach
to health problems is possible. Why is biomedicine the dominant model?
Should it be? If it is, how can the same biological entity be diagnosed,
treated, and experienced differently within various historical and cultural
contexts? Furthermore, what do these variations mean to the efforts of
many of the world’s “best and brightest” to eradicate
disease and raise the health standards of the mass of humanity?
Students must register for both a lecture and a recitation.
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