Social and Health Systems 3
Social and Health Systems 3 (SHS3) seminars engage third-semester medical students with scholarship on health, illness, and medical care in a variety of humanities, social science, and medical fields. Students choose a seminar from a wide range of subjects (see current offerings below). The seminars meet weekly throughout the 3rd semester.
These seminars build on material introduced in the first-year survey course Social and Health Systems 1/2. In SHS3, students immerse themselves in scholarship on a topic of interest. The seminars vary widely in content, encompassing everything from bioethics, health and human rights, and writing narrative medicine to health disparities, global health, the evolution and production of knowledge about disease, and much more. All seminars share objectives, goals, requirements, and competencies common to the SHS3 course. Students refine skills of critical thinking in presentations, seminar discussions, and research and writing assignments.
Barry Saunders is lead Course Director for Social and Health Systems 3. Raul Necochea is SHS 3 co-Course Director.
2020 SHS3 Seminars
- Exploring the Impact of Jails and Prisons on Health Outcomes
Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, PhD - Death and Dying in America
Mara Buchbinder, PhD - Exploring the ‘Other Side’: Experiences of Deviance, Chronic Illness, and Disability
Sue Estroff, PhD, MA - Pharmaceuticals, Politics, & Culture
Jill Fisher, PhD - The Ethics and Politics of Clinical Research
Gail Henderson, PhD, MA - Writing Narrative Medicine
Terry Holt, MD, MFA, PhD - From “Foreign Invasion” to “Herd Immunity”: Rethinking Health, Disease, and
Prevention in the COVID 19 Era
Eric Juengst, PhD, MA - The Revenge of the Sick: History of Medicine from the Patient’s Point of View
Raul Necochea, PhD, MSc - Unfinished Journey: The American Struggle for Health Care Reform
Jon Oberlander, PhD, MA, MPhil - Sexual and Gender Minority Health: Issues, Controversies, and Inequalities
Tonia Poteat, PhD, MPH, MMSc - Global Health and Medical Ethics
Stuart Rennie, PhD, MA - Antagonism, Controversy, and Change in Biomedical Sciences
Barry Saunders, MD, PhD, MA - Health and Human Rights
Jeffrey Sonis, MD, MPH - History and Ethics of Human and Animal Experimentation
Rebecca Walker, PhD, MA, AB