Lecture Notes

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Lec # topics
1 Introduction to Course (PDF)
2 Introduction to Basic Issues (PDF)
3 "Irrational Beliefs" in Disease Causation and Treatment (PDF)
4 "Irrational Beliefs" in Disease Causation and Treatment (cont.) (PDF)
5 Symbolic Healing and Harming (PDF)
6 The Cultural Construction of Disease (PDF)
8 Meaning, Medicine, and Illness (PDF)
9 The Institution(s) of Medicine I (PDF)
11 The Institution(s) of Medicine III (PDF)
13 The Institution(s) of Medicine V (PDF)
15 The Institution(s) of Medicine VII (PDF)
17 Health, Disease and Healing in the Larger Social Context II (PDF)
18 Health, Disease and Healing in the Larger Social Context III (PDF)
19 Health, Disease and Healing in the Larger Social Context IV (PDF)
20 Health, Disease and Healing in the Larger Social Context V (PDF)
21 Stigmatized Conditions and the Construction of Illness (PDF)
22 The Challenge of Chronic Illness (PDF)
24 New Reproductive Technologies (PDF)

The Social and Political Context of Reproduction