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May 03, 2024
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Goucher College 2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalogue PLEASE NOTE: This is an archived catalog. Programs are subject to change each academic year.
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CPEB 206 - Getting Healthcare (4 Cr.) (GCR Social and Behavioral Sciences area)
The United States spends more on healthcare than any other wealthy democratic nation. And yet in global healthcare rankings, the United States consistently performs poorly overall compared with its peers. In this course, we will bring together medical anthropology and healthcare policy perspectives to examine this conundrum of the healthcare system in the United States, with particular attention to key historical developments and to how healthcare is actually experienced by people today, for example by patients, providers, or healthcare advocates. We will work individually and collaboratively to address the complexities of “getting healthcare,” both in terms of everyday healthcare-seeking and in terms of gaining a clear understanding of what has gone into the makings of a unique and highly complex system for healthcare coverage and delivery. (Restricted to first-year and sophomore students, and others with instructor permission.) Students are limited to one CPE course per semester. Schwarz.
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