Health and medicine is more than just biological – societal forces can get under your skin and cause illness. Medical sociologists like me study these forces by treating society itself as our ...

The field of Sociology of Health examines the ways in which social structures, interactions, and cultural contexts shape health outcomes and the distribution of disease across populations. It ...

Entering winter term as a sociology minor, I needed a 300-level sociology class to take. Only one was open: SOC 318, Social Networks and Health with Emmanuel Koku, PhD, associate professor in the ...

Black Washingtonians grapple with the largest racial life expectancy gap in the nation. But Sanyu Mojola isn’t satisfied that the burden of finding a solution to decades of health disparities rests ...

In debates about the soaring costs of American health care, attention typically turns to insurance reform, pharmaceutical ...