GES 629 - Graduate Seminar in Geography of Disease and Health

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This course will engage students in advanced study of environmental and geographical perspectives on health and disease, focusing particularly on the ways health knowledge interacts with society, space, and politics. The course focuses on environmental justice, political ecology of disease, public health policy, pollution law, and historical change in landscapes and medical paradigms, The primary focus is on the US context, but with some attention to international and global health issues.