Liberal Arts and Professional Studies (AP) – Health and Society |
Location: | S775 Ross Building, Tel.: 416-736-2100, ext. 77796 |
Website: | http://www.yorku.ca/laps/sosc/heso |
Program Coordinator: | M. Davies, Social Science |
Affiliated Faculty: | P. Antze, Social Science; B. Beardwood, Social Science; M. Davies, Social Science; D. Elliot, Social Science; J. Llambias-Wolff, Social Science |
Health and society is a term used to denote a body of scholarship that has emerged over the past 20 years in response to perceived limitations in a strictly biomedical approach to health issues. The health and society concept embraces research conducted in a number of overlapping interdisciplinary fields including: history and philosophy of medicine; medical sociology; behavioural medicine; medical anthropology; social epidemiology; psychosomatic medicine; health psychology; community mental health; international development; family, the life course and gerontology; occupational health and safety; environmental health and women and health.
The program aims to meet the needs of students who wish to go on to work in health-related occupations, to enter graduate programs in health studies, or simply to enrich the experience of those who have general interests in health-related issues.