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| Campus | Haverford |
| Semester | Fall 2024 |
| Registration ID | HLTHH215A001 |
| Course Title | Sacrifice Zones: Empires, Epidemics, and Climate Changes |
| Credit | 1.00 |
| Department | Health Studies |
| Instructor | Minsky,Lauren |
| Times and Days | MW 11:30am-12:55pm
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| Room Location | UN111 |
| Additional Course Info | Class Number: 1688 Global health environments have been shaped by human activities of imperialism and globalization since antiquity. Explore the relationships between intensive agriculture and the cultivation of disease; trade and disease spread; industrial capitalism, metabolic disorders and cancers; and differential racial, gendered and class entitlements and life expectancy. Participate in debates over how to address humanity's current existential crisis, and learn about alternative approaches to “healing” global health environments that can be recycled from our global past.; Pre-requisite(s): Intro to Health Studies (HLTH H115/HLTH B115) or permission of instructor. ; Lottery Preference: (1) Declared Health Studies minors, (2) Environmental Studies and/or History majors/minors; Enrollment Limit: 25.00 Social Science, B: Analysis of the Social World (; Hav: SO, B) |
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