Peoples and Public Health

After completing this assignment you will explore:

How disease and societies response to it shaped socio-cultural evolution.
How experience of disease shape worldviews, drives technological and cultural innovation, forces migrations, and transforms societies.
How human efforts to contain and control disease have altered the natural and societal landscapes in which we live.

Skills:

The purpose of this assignments is to develop the following skills, which support the learning goals of the class.

Use reason, evidence, and context to increase knowledge and to reason ethically, and to innovate in comparative thinking.
Aid in ability to write effectively to achieve intended meaning and understanding.
Work to understand, respect and interact constructively with other perspectives.
Develop depth, breadth, and integration of learning for the benefit of themselves, their communities, their employers, and for society at large.

Task:

The responses to the spread of disease have shaped history and societies around the world. Racial, gender and economic inequalities have influenced the development of public health and societies reposes to disease.

In a succinct, clearly written, three-page double-spaced essay that uses multiple historical examples from readings, videos, lecture notes, and discussion notes, answer the following question:

How have public health initiatives challenged or reinforced societal inequalities based on race, class, and gender in the last 200 years? This is a broad question so you will need to focus on one or more aspects of the question.

Criteria:

See Rubric in assignment on Blackboard for details.

Statement of Argument 30%

Organization 20%

Use of evidence 20%

Historical Context 20%

Written Conventions 10%

You will use footnotes and provide a bibliography. You will use Chicago Manual of Style for citations. No traceable Chicago Style footnotes -5%, no bibliography -5%.

The essay should be 12pt Times New Roman with 1-inch margins.