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DISCOVER HOPKINS HEALTH STUDIES: Medical Sociology & Pandemics

  • Session I: June 29 - July 12 (This program is full)

Course Number: AS 360.118.01 (1 credit)
Instructors: Adam Ruben and Rachel Core
Cost: $1995

Description: Two years ago, the world was paralyzed by the thought that Avian flu would kill millions around the world. Pandemics can now be more easily tracked—and more easily spread—than ever, rendering scientists and social scientists simultaneously powerful and helpless. This course will explore every type of pandemic disease, from afflictions like malaria and HIV that still kill millions to “unrealized” pandemics like the Ebola virus and SARS that threaten to do so. The first part of the course will explore how social context—race, class, gender, etc. matter for health access and the spread of infectious disease. The second part will explore the science behind those diseases as well as some of the actual laboratory research aimed at controlling them.

DISCOVER HOPKINS HEALTH STUDIES: The Natural & the Artificial: The Concept of the Man-Made Man

  • Session II: July 13 - 26

Course Number: AS 360.118.02 (1 credit)
Instructors: Katherine Reinhart
Cost: $1995

Description: This course will look at the concept of the artificial human from the Golem to the android, illustrating changing relationships of science, society and ideas of human nature.

DISCOVER HOPKINS HEALTH STUDIES: Preventive Medicine: Health & Fitness in the 21st Century

  • Session II: July 13 - 26 (This program is full)

Course Number: AS 360.118.03 (1 credit)
Instructors: Anne Irwin
Cost: $1995

Description: As infectious disease rates have declined over the past century, the United States has seen increasing rates of chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, obesity, and heart disease. Central to the discussion of these diseases is prevention via exercise, nutrition, and healthful behaviors. This Discover Hopkins Program will draw together various physicians, researchers, and experts from Johns Hopkins University to discuss and examine what relationship health and fitness have to one another, now and in the future. Preventative Medicine will include lectures, workshops, and experiential fieldtrips to explore such topics as chronic disease epidemiology, exercise physiology, anatomy, nutrition, coronary artery disease, obesity, osteoporosis, exercise guidelines and techniques, and other related health and fitness topics.

DISCOVER HOPKINS HEALTH STUDIES: Medical Considerations of Health in the Urban Environment

  • Session III: July 27 - August 2

Course Number: AS 360.118.04 (1 credit)
Instructors: Dan Pasciuti
Cost: $1595

Description: Today the majority of the population of the United States lives in cities and soon half of the earth's population will live in urban areas. What does this mean for the health and medical care of population groups throughout the world? This course will examine the physical, social and economic dimensions of health and medical care in the urban environment with specific reference to urban sprawl, air quality, urban heat island effects, physical activity patterns, pedestrian and motor vehicle injuries, water quantity and quality, redevelopment, and health disparities by race and class.

 

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SCHEDULE

  • Session I
    June 29 - July 12
  • Session II
    July 13 - July 26
  • Session III
    July 27 - August 2
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