Medical and Mental Health
The graduate program in the Department of Sociology at Â鶹´«Ã½ offers a specialization in medical sociology and sociology of mental health. Within those broad areas, students and faculty study a range of topics:
- The stress process
- Neighborhoods and health
- Doctor-patient interaction
- Identities and health
- Aging
- Health disparities
- Caregiving and caregivers
- Epidemiology
- Substance use
Faculty who teach in the graduate program and conduct research in the fields of medical sociology and the sociology of mental health include: