Cross-cultural survey of health, disease, and healing in folk, primitive, and modern pluralistic societies. Biocultural and ethnomedical approaches in medical anthropology.

This course offers a structural exposure of students to the varieties of basic and clinical science research and current issues in healthcare policy under discussion at the University Medical Center. Following weekly attendance at research seminars and clinical rounds, students will present their observations in follow-up discussion groups. May be repeated to a maximum of three credits.

This course is designed to support clinical and translational science students in acquiring an applied understanding of the biostatistical tools and techniques commonly used in the conduct of clinical and translational science research. Through a combination of lectures, readings, demonstrations, discussions, and self-study modules, students will understand and appreciate measurement and statistical challenges that are common to clinical and translational science.

An in-depth discussion of theory and method of the various approaches to cultural and social factors in the etiology, distribution, and treatment of mental illness. Data from non-Western and Western cultures are examined.

This class will utilize case studies for debate, class participation, and papers to help students gain skills to recognize and resolve research dilemmas. Objectives of this class include: (1) understand basic elements of ethical dilemmas; (2) to understand basic ethical theories and frameworks for solving ethical dilemmas; (3) to examine ethical dilemmas within a behavioral or medical science research context; and, (4) to examine ways of eliminating bias and promoting objectivity in a behavioral or medical science research context.

This course on racism and health disparities is designed to support graduate studies in the social sciences, allied health, and medical disciplines.

This course will examine the research on intimate partner violence, mental health, and substance abuse among women. Clinical and legal interventions will also be discussed. Although knowledge of at least basic statistics would be helpful, it is not required for this class.

This course is designed to critically examine undeniable inequities in the distribution of morbidity and mortality. Students explore linkages between disease burdens and the social economic, and cultural contexts of our rapidly changing world by integrating local, national and international perspectives from social and biomedical sciences.

A review of sociological concepts and methods which have been applied to the study of health and medicine; the contributions of medical sociology to general sociological theory and to concepts and research on health-related problems of society.

Human Response to Stress provides an overview of current models and theories of stress, a review of multi-disciplinary approaches to the study of stress in applied settings, and a reading knowledge of selected research findings in the field of stress.