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SOCI 23000: THE SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH AND ILLNESS The Sociology of Health and Illness examines the social factors that shape both the discipline of medicine, as well as the lived experience of health and illness. Topics covered include: the political, economic, environmental, racial, and gendered structures that influence the experience of health and illness; comparative healthcare models; the professionalization of medicine; challenges to the biomedical model of health; the medicalization and pharmaceuticalization of societies; and the impact of medicine on the experience of embodiment. Readings will include classic and recent journal articles from this subfield, as well as ethnographic accounts of medical practice and the experience of illness. [HSS]