Teaching

Podcasts

Here we provide downloadable mp3 files of lectures from Sociology 190 for the previous year and for the current year (as they become available). The lectures for 2007 are keyed to the syllabus for 2007, also available from this page, and the lectures for 2008 are keyed to the syllabus for 2008.

Life & Death in the USA: Medicine & Disease in Social Context (2007)

1. Week 1, Lecture 1. Course Introduction.mp3

2. Week 2, Lecture 1. The Role of Medical Care.mp3

3. Week 2, Lecture 1. The Role of Medical Care.mp3

4. Week 2, Lecture 1. The Role of Medical Care.mp3

5. Week 3, Lecture 2. Unequal Treatment and Unequal Outcomes with Respect to Race and Ethnicity.mp3

6. Week 4, Lecture 1. The Social Construction of Illness and Medicine.mp3

7. Week 5, Lecture 1. Death and Dying.mp3

8. Week 5, Lecture 2. The Role of Prognostication in End-of-Life Care.mp3

9. Week 6, Lecture 1. Selected Ethical Aspects of End-of-Life Care.mp3

10. Week 7, Lecture 1. The Problem of Medical Harm.mp3

11. Week 7, Lecture 2. Socialization of Physicians with Respect to Medical Error.mp3

12. Week 8, Lecture 1. Obesity, Exercise, and Diet.mp3

13. Week 8, Lecture 2. re-posted_ Tobacco, Alcohol, and Firearms.mp3

14. Week 9, Lecture 1. Religion, Belief, Health, and Health Behavior.mp3

15. Week 9, Lecture 2. Social Inequality and Individual Health.mp3

16. Week 10, Lecture 1. Stress, Status, and Social Hierarchy.mp3

17. Week 10, Lecture 2. Social Support and the Health Benefits of Relationships.mp3

18. Week 11, Lecture 1. Health and Social Networks.mp3

19. Week 11, Lecture 2. Social Capital and Neighborhood Effects on Health.mp3

20. Week 12, Lecture 1. Neighborhood Effects.mp3

21. Week 12, Lecture 2. Social Control of Individual Use of New Biotechnologies.mp3

22. Week 13, Lecture 1. Access to Health Care and Health Insurance, and a Selection of Policy Interventions.mp3

23. Week 13, Lecture 2. Public Health and Individual Experience.mp3

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