Dickinson Current and Proposed Health Studies Course
Background
Given the scope and complexity of factors influencing individual and community health as well as the complexity of health systems designed to a
Name of Student |
Title of Project |
Department |
Supervisor |
Semester |
Type of Project |
| Maggie Murphy | “The Struggle to Breathe: Living at Life Expectancy With Cystic Fibrosis.” & “Cystic Fibrosis and Its Metaphors.” | Sociology | Prof. Schubert | 2005 | Published Manuscript & Manuscript in Progress |
| Kathleen Adia | Inference of Health and Diet of the Akhmim Population Based on Analysis of CT Scans of Egyptian Mummies. | Anthropology | Prof. Weinstein | Spring '06 | Senior Thesis |
| Meghan Talmadge | International Funding and Medical Needs of Rural Tanzanian. | Anthropology | Prof. Ellison | Spring '06 | Senior Thesis |
| Jessica Dorton | A History of Curanderisimo and Mexican American Folk Medicine. | Anthropology | Prof. Enge | Spring '05 | Senior Thesis |
| Amy Foulks | Hospital Births vs Home Births: Women's Feelings About Safety, Risk and Technology in Birth. | Anthropology | Prof. Enge | Spring '05 | Senior Thesis |
| Emily Goodfellow | Eldery Health Care Issues: Home Care Vs. Nursing Home Care. | Anthropology | Prof. Enge | Spring '05 | Senior Thesis |
| Christine McCreary | Military Benefits and Continued Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Among Vietnam Veterns. | Anthropology | Prof. Enge | Spring '05 | Senior Thesis |
| Donald Simmons-Morton | Gender Inequality and rape: A re-examination of inconclusive empirical findings . | Economics | Prof. Kongar | Fall '05 | Honor's Thesis |
| Martha Gidey & Nimi Nirdosh | The effects of structural adjustment policies on women in Ethiopia and India. | Economics | Prof. Kongar | Fall '05 | Senior Seminar Final Paper |
| Janaki Chinnaswamy | AIDS in India. | IB&M | Prof. Sarcone | Spring '06 | Paper Presentation at the 2006 Freeman Symposium (Health, Law, & Justice) . |
| Jessica Dorton | Health Services of Periban de Ramos and Adams County. | Mexican Mosaic - Sociology, History, Anthropology | Prof. Rose, Prof. Borges, & Prof. Enge | Fall '06 | Final Paper |
| Hilary G. Harding | Risk Perceptions and Relationship Intentions among Women in a Domestic Violence Shelter. | Psychology | Prof. Helweg-Larsen | Spring '06 | Honor's Thesis |
| Laurel Peterson | Self-efficacy and Risk: Psychological Variables of Women's Adherence over a Six-week Weight Loss Program. | Psychology | Prof. Helweg-Larsen | Spring '06 | Honor's Thesis |
| Lucia Stancioff (and others) | Acculturation matters: Risk Perceptions of smoking among Bosian refugees in the U.S. | Psychology | Prof. Helweg-Larsen | Spring '06 | Poster presented at the Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science. |
| Andrew Bettencourt & Ashley Hoover (and others) | Predicting self-rated health from perceived and actual cardiovascualr risk and among hypertensive patients. | Psychology | Prof. Helweg-Larsen | Spring '06 | Poster presented at the Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science. |
| Allison Meloni (and others) | Worry and risk perceptions about heart attack and stroke in hypertensive patients. | Psychology | Prof. Helweg-Larsen | Spring '05 | Poster presented at the 9th European Congress of Psychology. |
| Laurel Peterson & Andrew Bettencourt (and others) | Socio-economic status an d race difference in optimistic bias among hypertensive patients. | Psychology | Prof. Helweg-Larsen | Spring '05 | Poster presented at the Eastern Psychological Association Conference. |
| Hilary Harding & Kim Kleinman | Optimistic bias in dating violence among college women. | Psychology | Prof. Helweg-Larsen | Spring '05 | Poster presented at the Eastern Psychological Association Conference. |
| Megan Taylor, Ed Isael, & Maya Winoker | Gender differences in responding to health questionnaires. | Psychology | Prof. Skelton | Spring '05 | Poster presented at Association for Psychological Science. |
| Drew Accordino | Illness representations of geriatric practice patients. | Psychology | Prof. Skelton | Spring '05 | Senior Research |
| Jeffrey Gilson | Health locus of control and magical beliefs | Psychology | Prof. Skelton | Spring '05 | Senior Research |
| Genielle Burrows & Emily Barrell | How observers explain work-related injuries. | Psychology | Prof. Skelton | Spring '04 | Poster presented at Eastern Psychological Association. |
| Kymberly Lewis | The role of alpha1-adrenergic receptor in caffeine-induced conditioned taste avoidance in rats. | Psychology | Prof. Rauhut | Spring '05 | Poster presentation at Sigma Xi Student Research Symposium. |
| Kymberly Lewis | The rols of alpha1-adrenergic receptor in caffeine-induced conditioned tast avoidance and discrimination in rats. | Psychology | Prof. Rauhut | Spring '05 | Honor's Thesis |
| Pheobe Kuesters | The Effect of Bupropion on the expression of a nicotine-induced conditioned place aversion. | Psychology | Prof. Rauhut | Spring '05 | Honor's Thesis |
| Tiffany Kimbrough (and others) | Effects of buproprin on acquistion and expression of nicotine-conditioned place aversion in rats. | Psychology | Prof. Rauhut | Fall '05 | Poster presentatoin at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting. |
| Melissa Sviatko | A study of mental health and substance abuse in the greater Carlisle area. | Policy Studies | Prof. Sarcone | Spring '04 | Honor's Thesis |
| Bernadette McFadden | The impact of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations on Hepatitis B in China. | Policy Studies | Prof. Sarcone | Spring '06 | Paper presentation at the 2006 Freeman Symposium (Health, Law, and Justice). |
| Tara Russell | Physician training satisfaction & prestige. | Sociology | Prof. Rose & Prof. Schubert | Spring '06 | Honor's Thesis |
| Kirsten Berg | What you know can't hurt you: Abstinence-only vs sexuality education. | Sociology | Prof. Schubert & Prof. Rose | Spring '05 | Honor's Thesis |
| Lauren Porter | Intimate partner violence. | Sociology | Prof. Rose | Fall '06 | Final Paper |
Address these factors, it remains an ongoing challenge to organize the subjects of health, health care and medical care in meaningful ways to address teaching, research and service objectives. As we pursue a health care initiative at Dickinson, we too are faced with the challenge of organizing these topics in ways that recognize our multi – disciplinary strengths and our community and global foci. The areas of focus described below represent an integration of programmatic themes present in clinical and administrative health programs offered by the following universities: Harvard University; The University of Pittsburgh; Tulane University; and, The University of North Carolina. It is important to state that the trajectories listed below are to be used as a guide by both faculty and students in the pursuit of health educational, research and service opportunities rather than as clearly defined boundaries on the subject of health.
Health Studies Areas of Focus
Life and Health Sciences
This focus area incorporates a wide range of disciplines including but not limited to the following: biology; neurobiology; chemistry; biochemistry; genetics; epidemiology; and, biostatistics for the purposes of defining individual and community mental and physical health; explaining technical aspects of medical care interventions; and investigating the diffusion of these technologies into every day medical care use.
Behavioral and Community Health
This focus area examines the development and application of various social and behavioral science theories and methods for the purposes of preventing illness and promoting health through education and other pro active strategies at the community level.
Health, Culture, and Society
This focus area generally reviews questions of health equity and human rights.The focus area represents the work of those in the humanities, sociology, and psychology who document individual health/illness experiences (care givers, patients, others).
Environmental and Occupational Health
This focus area concentrates on the investigation and mitigation of health risks associated with environmental and occupational hazards. The interdisciplinary approach employed by researchers and professionals incorporate risk assessment and management strategies to minimize these adverse outcomes.
Biomedical Ethics and Law
This focus area identifies and investigates emerging ethical and legal issues raised by medicine and biomedical research.
Health Policy and Management
This is a broad ranging focus area routinely researching cost, access, and quality issues as they apply to the financing and delivery of health services at organizational and system levels.
Global Health
This focus area bases its approach on the realization that the world is economically, politically, and technologically connected and interdependent with increasingly mobile populations. Health related issues, concerns and problems are more frequently diffusing across geographic borders and therefore must be investigated, understood and ameliorated at an international level.
Health Studies Topic |
Discipline |
Course Number |
Course Title |
Course Status
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Life and Health Sciences |
Biology |
125 |
Understanding Cancer |
Offered* |
Life and Health Sciences |
Biology |
333 |
Physiology |
Offered* |
Life and Health Sciences |
Anthropology |
100 |
Introduction to Biological Anthropology |
Offered* |
Life and Health Sciences |
Anthropology |
216 |
Medical Anthropology |
Offered |
Life and Health Sciences |
Anthropology |
218 |
Biosocial Aspects of Female Sexuality |
Offered |
Life and Health Sciences |
Anthropology |
310 |
Nutritional Anthropology |
Offered* |
Life and Health Sciences |
Anthropology |
Epidemiology |
Proposed |
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Beh. and Com. Health |
Psychology |
Community Psychology |
Offered |
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Spanish |
231-B |
Spanish for the Health Professionals – Adams County |
Offered |
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Health, Culture, Society |
Sociology |
400 |
Death and Dying |
Offered |
Health, Culture, Society |
Sociology |
333 |
The Sociology of Health and Illness |
Offered* |
Health, Culture, Society |
Sociology |
233 |
Medical Sociology |
Offered |
Health, Culture, Society |
Soc./Anthro |
230/245 |
Medicine, Society and Science |
Offered* |
Health, Culture, Society |
Psychology |
Thinking about Illness |
Offered |
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Health, Culture, Society |
American St |
Health, Culture and Obesity |
Proposed |
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Health, Culture, Society |
American St |
Health and Illness Narratives |
Offered |
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Health, Culture, Society |
American St |
300 |
Women’s Health |
Offered |
Health, Culture, Society |
History |
Social Health in America |
Proposed |
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Health, Culture, Society |
Economics |
349 |
Political Economy of the Third World |
Offered |
Health, Culture, Society |
Economics |
495 |
Political Economy of Health |
Offered* |
Health, Culture, Society |
History |
495 |
History of Science |
Offered* |
E and O Health |
Anthropology |
214 |
Ecological Anthropology |
Offered |
E and O Health |
Envi Science |
230 |
International Environmental Challenges |
Offered |
E and O Health |
Economics |
222 |
Environmental Economics |
Offered |
Policy and Management |
IB&M |
300R |
Health Policy and Management |
Offered |
Policy and Management |
IB&M |
300AO |
Nonprofit Management |
Offered |
Policy and Management |
Economics |
344 |
Public Finance |
Offered |
Policy and Management |
Economics |
351 |
The Economics and Politics of Regulation |
Offered |
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Ethics and Law |
Philosophy |
255 |
Philosophy of Science |
Offered |
Ethics and Law |
Phil./PMGT |
220/220 |
Bio Medical Ethics |
Offered* |
Ethics and Law |
Policy Std. |
290 |
Managing Death |
Offered |
Ethics and Law |
Political Sc. |
Biomedical Technology, Policy and Law |
Offered |
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Global Health |
Anthropology |
216 |
Medical Anthropology |
Offered |
Sociology |
237 |
Global Inequality |
Offered |
|
Sociology |
271 |
Comparative Social Policy |
Offered |
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Anthropology |
245 |
Health and Healing in Africa |
Offered |
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Service Learning and Change Agency |
service learning courses by Professors W. Smith, Sarcone, Davis, Cullen, Rose |
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Fieldwork |
opportunities in several majors to complete |
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health related research |
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Mosaics |
Mexican Migration Mosaic and Tanzania Field |
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School ( strong health focus) |
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Internships |
refer to listing provided by career center |
Completed |
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Supporting Course Work |
Spanish |
231-B |
Spanish for the Health Professions |
Offered* |
Supporting Course Work |
Anthropology |
240 |
Qualitative Research Methods |
Offered |
Supporting Course Work |
Anthropology |
241 |
Measurement and Quant. in the Social Sciences |
Offered |
Supporting Course Work |
Mathematics |
121 |
Elementary Statistics |
Offered* |
| Supporting Course Work | Psychology | 201/202 | Research Methods in Cross Cultural Psychology | Offered* |
Proposed Courses:
Epidemiology Karen Weinstein
Health, Culture, and Obesity Amy Farrell
Social Health in America Kim Rogers
They will submit proposals for new courses through their respective departments.
* - course offered fall, 2008