ABORTION IN WISCONSIN AND BEYOND: EXPLORING MEDICAL, PUBLIC HEALTH, AND SOCIAL SCIENCE PERSPECTIVES

SRMED 926

Individually arranged elective for Phase 3 outside of the UW Madison Statewide Campus. Engage in the provision of primary or specialty patient care in ambulatory and/or hospital settings.

GEN&WS 534

Explores several theoretical lenses, disciplinary approaches, and substantive topical areas relating to reproductive and sexual health. Begin by investigating the development of "sexual health" as a phenomenon in public health research, policy, and programs looking back to feminist responses to population control policies of the 1970s. Covers substantive topical areas in the field (e.g., adolescent sexual development, contraception, and AIDS).

GEN&WS 529

Explores the contemporary science and politics of reproductive health in North America. Taught from a reproductive justice (RJ) perspective, a framework for analysis and action developed by Black women health organizers and scholars. Examines several aspects and applications of the reproductive justice framework itself; RJ approaches to pregnancy and birth; RJ as a diagnosis and refusal of eugenics; and RJ and abortion. Engages with case studies, scholarship, and theory from a variety of literatures relevant to public health: epidemiology, feminist and queer theory, critical race studies, gender/sexuality studies, activist and policy analyses, and historical and contemporary primary sources. Explores a variety of experiences and meanings of reproductive health and illness, as well as the relationships between health/disease and racism, poverty, sexism, hetero- and cis- normativity, colonization, incarceration, and environmental degradation.

COMARTS 315

Study the history of reproductive justice activism in the United States. Consider the legal basis for reproductive rights and key Supreme Court decisions relating to birth control and abortion. Examine core questions: how have reproductive rights been defined differently in different historical moments? What are rights in the context of reproduction? Who has reproductive freedom, and whose reproduction has been controlled? What role does race play in the history of reproductive justice? How does class influence people's access to reproductive healthcare? How does analyzing gender help us understand the history of reproductive justice?

MEDHIST 747

Gain an appreciation of the intersection of feminist themes with ethical issues in medicine and public health. Feminist epistemology and care ethics. Applied feminist bioethics topics, including abortion and maternal-fetal medicine. Apply a feminist lens to bioethical theories and topics, and identify and analyze an array of issues that arise from sex and gender.