SOBS 608 GENDER AND HEALTH

The course examines the interrelationship between gender and health with a focus on the socio-cultural, socio-political, and socio-economic constructs of gender and how these constructs affect women and men’s health in the developing world. It moves beyond a description of specific health problems to critically analyze how women and men’s health problems develop, are perceived, and responded to both medically and socially in the contemporary society. In this context, an important theoretical aspect of the course is the development of a socio-medical perspective on health.