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The following except this are considered social determinants health: education level, race, gender, and hair color.
What is hair color?
This HSOC concentration explores how hospitals, insurance, and public policy shape healthcare delivery.
What is an Healthcare Markets and Finance?
HSOC 0480: Health and Societies
Dr. McKay
In what war did antiseptic surgical techniques dramatically reduce infection deaths due to battlefield injuries?
What is World War I?
This professor is currently the HSS Director of Graduate Studies...
Who is Dr. McKay?
This concept from philosopher Michel Foucault describes a system of surveillance where people regulate their own behavior because they believe they are constantly being watched.
What is the Panopticon?
Submit a request online explaining how the course advances your concentration’s intellectual goals, ideally after the add/drop deadline of the semester you take it
What is petitioning a class?
HSOC 2202: Health of Populations
Dr. Kohler
Before germ theory, many Europeans believed diseases spread through this “bad air,” often blamed on rotting matter and poor environments.
What is miasma?
The professor has an Advanced Certificate in Creative Writing from Penn
Who is Dr. Muller?
This infamous U.S. medical study (1932–1972) withheld treatment from Black men with syphilis in order to observe the natural progression of the disease.
What is the Tuskegee Syphilis Study?
Many HSOC students interested in medicine take this standardized exam for medical school admission.
What is the MCAT?
HSOC 3017: Biology and Society
Dr. Charenko
In 1854, this London outbreak led John Snow to map cases and trace the source to a contaminated water pump on Broad Street.
What is the cholera outbreak (or the Broad Street cholera epidemic)?
This professor has some of the following research interests:
popular culture, particularly film and television; trauma studies, focusing on stark cultural change
Who is Dr. Muller?
This policy practice in the United States historically denied mortgages to residents of predominantly Black neighborhoods, shaping long-term health disparities.
What is redlining?
HSOC students often examine this concept, which refers to unfair and avoidable differences in health between groups.
What are health disparities?
HSOC 4528: Race and Medicine in America
Dr. Mohr
This 1902 public health experiment involved paying people for rat tails, which led to people breeding rats instead of eliminating them.
What is the Great Hanoi Rat Hunt?
This professor's first book went on to be featured in a Ric Burns documentary titled A Debt of Honor in 2015
Who is Dr. Linker?
This theory proposes that fundamental causes of health, such as education level and SES, become significantly more important as a person ages.
What is Cumulative Advantage Theory?
This is what HSOC students say when asked, “So… are you pre-med or not?”
What is "It’s complicated"?
HSOC 2227: Trauma and Healing in Historical Perspective
Dr. Clayton
In 1796, an English physician used material from cowpox lesions to protect against smallpox, marking a turning point in preventive medicine.
Who is Edward Jenner?
This professor has appeared as a guest on BBC Radio 4 programs including In Our Time and The Rise of the Robots
Who is Dr. Truitt?