Description
This course explores change, ideas and the multiple meanings of health, illness, and the life cycle within the context of health care development, organization, and delivery in the United States. It explores the process of how ideas, such as freedom of choice and individualism, develop and change; how they are culturally modified and highly dependent on time and place specific ideas related to racial, ethnic, class, gender, religious, and regional differences. A central focus of this course is to explore and explain change and choice related to how Americans thought about their bodies, health, illness and sick care as well as what drove the ideas for the creation of a system of health care. This course explores the historical link to how in America a country with the best health care facilities in the world cannot provide the best health care to all.