Medical Sociology

Current offering — AY2026/2027 Semester 1

This course is to provides a broad overview into the main areas of medical sociology. We will explore its main subfields, including how sociology functions within medicine and the sociology of medicine. Among the issues we will discuss are the social causation of disease, relation- ships between clinicians and patients, the sociology of health professions, and health disparities between population subgroups (e.g., gender, race, class)

Total hours per week: 3 hrs

AUs	4.0 AUs
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Prerequisite	HS1001, HS2001, HS2002, HS3001, HS3002
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HS1001Person & Society HS2001Classical Social Theory HS2002Doing Social Research HS3001Contemporary Social Theory HS3002Understanding Social Statistics

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Medical Sociology

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Digital Literacy, Culture & Society

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Person & Society

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Singapore Society In Transition

HS2001

Classical Social Theory

HS2008

Social Class & Inequality

HS2009

Sociology Of The Life Course

HS2013

Migration & Multiculturalism

HS2026

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