This seminar is aimed at Sargent College Health Science seniors. It will explore several public health themes through literature, including both fiction and nonfiction, plays, poetry, and film. Topics covered may include the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the interaction of the patient and the health care system, the public health and medical response in conflict and disaster settings, aging, and the role of whistle-blowers in public health. Students will get the opportunity to read critically and discuss in depth, as well as to try their hand at creative writing.

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