HEALTH DISPARITIES RESEARCH: HISTORIES, PRACTICES, AND METHODS

MEDHIST 746

Examine ideas about race and ethnicity and their relationship to the history of "Western" medicine and science. Analyze the role of social, economic, cultural, and political developments in the shaping of scientific and medical notions of race and bodily difference. Study how skin color (and other elements of "racial identity") has influenced the experiences of patients and populations, physicians and nurses, and medical researchers. Discuss how conceptions of race have shaped both the health concerns and health outcomes of Americans in the past three hundred years, and the structure of medical institutions in the United States. Topics include the origins of racial classification, race and colonialism, the health and medical care of the enslaved, the use of enslaved people as research subjects, the history of racial disparities in medicine, structural racism of the medical establishment, race and reproduction, and the struggle for justice in health care during the past few decades.

MEDSC-M 911

Uses Wisconsin health disparities data as a tool to address the broader misconceptions about race, biology, and health. Includes an overview of the genetic mechanisms for species variation, human evolutionary history, human adaptation and clinical patterns, and misconceptions about the biological underpinnings of race and health outcomes with an emphasis on the social and environmental determinants of health.

AFROAMER/HISTSCI/MEDHIST 523

Provides historical perspectives on current dilemmas facing black patients and health care professionals.

HISTSCI 360

Analyze historical factors impacting healthcare cost, access, and services with focus on social determinants of health in the United States across the long 20th century. Evaluate current state of the field through literature reviews and conversations with guest lecturers. Apply historical analysis in consideration of current disparities in health resources. Produce original research project and policy proposal at intersection of public health, medical history, and health law and policy.

NURSING 800

Examination of key concepts in health disparities and health equity as they apply to nursing and related health research. Identification of structural and social determinants of equity that shape health at multiple levels, across the health and wellness continuum, in all health domains and throughout the life course. Emphasis on implications for the design, conduct, interpretation, and dissemination of nursing and health research.