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HUMBIO 166: Food and Society: Exploring Eating Behaviors in Social, Environmental, and Policy Context

The class examines the array of forces that affect the foods human beings eat, and when, where, and how we eat them, including human labor, agriculture, environmental sustainability, politics, animal rights/welfare, ethics, policy, culture, economics, business, law, trade, and ideology, and psychology. The class addresses the impact of current policies and actions that might be taken to improve human nutrition and health; macro-scale influences on food, nutrition, and eating behavior.

HUMBIO 170: Justice, Policy, and Science

The role of science in civil rights, justice, policy, criminal justice, evidence, education, and disabled rights.

HUMBIO 173: Science, Innovation and the Law

The interaction of science, business and law: how scientific ideas are protected by law; the rights of those who invent, develop, and finance scientific discovery; and how ideas are commercialized and brought to market. What kinds of research, discovery, and innovation are protected; who has rights that can be protected; what kinds of rights can be protected, and the kinds of protections that apply; how inventions are commercialized; and the success and failure of businesses based on scientific discovery. Prerequisite: Human Biology core or equivalent, or consent of instructor.

HUMBIO 175: Health Care as Seen Through Medical History, Literature, and the Arts

The differences between disease as pathology and as the patient's experience. Topics include: patient-doctor relationships; medical technology; the changing focus on illness; gender issues; love, sex, and illness; mental illness; sick children; and death and dying. Limited enrollment.
Instructors: Zaroff, L. (PI)

HUMBIO 175S: Novels and Theater of Illness

Illness and disease through novels and plays by authors including Shakespeare, Miller, Sophocles, Hemingway, and Camus. How sickness involves the patient, family, community, and state. Limited enrollment.
Instructors: Zaroff, L. (PI)

HUMBIO 179S: Spirituality and Healing (ANTHRO 184)

The puzzle of symbolic healing. How have societies without the resources of modern medicine approached healing? Why do these rituals have common features around the world? Shamanism, spirit possession, prayer, and the role of placebos in modern biomedicine. Students do ethnographic work and practical explorations along with more traditional scholarly approaches to learning.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
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