SOCI 40
Sociology of Health Care Issues
Lecturer: Tom Waidzunas
UCSD
SOCI40 Sociology of Health Care Issues, Spring 2010
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Dear SOC40 students:
I hope you are having a great summer. If you would like to pick up your SOC40 final exam, these will be available at the front desk in the Sociology Department main office, SSB 401 beginning in Fall Quarter.
All best,
Tom
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Interesting Links:
National Alliance to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA)
Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation
Breast Cancer Action
Silent Spring Institute, Research Center on Breast Cancer and the Environment
Deena Metzger, Poet (Click on "Tree Poster")
New York Times, November 16, 2009, "Panel Urges Mammograms at 50, not 40"
Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered (FORCE), Hereditary Cancer and "Previvors"
New York Times, April 5, 2010, "Doctors Face Board Specialty 'Expiration Dates'"
The Myelin Project
Obituary, Lorenzo Odone
NIH National Center for Complimentary and Alternative Medicine
WHO 2003: "Acupuncture: Review and Analysis of Reports on Controlled Clinical Trials"
ABCNews: "New Study Blasts FDA for Allowing Human Testing of Risky Artificial Blood" April 28, 2008
Chicago Tribune: "Northfield Labs files for bankruptcy, to liquidate" June 02, 2009
New York Times: "At Lunch With Margaret Edson; Colors, Numbers, Letters and John Donne" November 10, 1998
Lance Armstrong Foundation
New York Times: Indian Tribe Wins Fight to Limit Research of Its DNA
WebMD
Center for Internet Addiction
Pfizer's Viagra website
Intersex Society of North America
Accord Alliance, organization to enhance health and well being of people affected by Disorders of Sex Development (DSD)
PBS Frontline: "The Age of Aids"
Animation of HIV virus infecting cell, targeting replication (Boehringer Ingelheim)
Peter Duesberg on AIDS
San Francisco AIDS Foundation, "HIV Causes AIDS: Proof Derived from Koch's Postulates"
"SA appoints AIDS dissidents" from news.bbc.co.uk 05/05/2000
"Ananlysis: Mbeki and the Aids sceptics" from news.bbc.co.uk 04/20/2000
Jon Cohen, "Fulfilling Koch's Postulates," Science vol 266, December 6, 1994
AIDS Truth: The Scientific Evidence for HIV/AIDS
BiDil
World Health Organization
WHO 2009 Report, "Global Health Risks: Mortality and burden of disease attributable to selected major risks"
NIH Clinical Trials Registry "clinicaltrials.gov"
Utah Health Exchange
Health Care Reform Bill 101 series, by Peter Grier, Christian Science Monitor, March 22, 2010
"In Health Care Overhaul, Boons for Hospitals and Drug Makers" by Reed Abelson, New York Times, March 21, 2010
"Doctors: Senators 'took a vacation,' left Medicare a mess" by Julianne Pepitone, CNN Money, June 3, 2010
Ronald Reagan speaks out on Socialized Medicine, 1961