A child receiving polioi vaccination via oral drops
Building upon Cockerham chapters 2-4 and Ross Chapter 2-4, discuss the health impact of industrialization,
modernization, and globalization on population health in the US. You may use online resources on “health
transitions” and “demographic transitions” associated with environmental changes, industrialization, and global
human migration associated with development and technological progress. Two recommended sources are the
article Stigmatized Biologies by Sarah Horton and Judith Barker, an online talk by Vandana Shiva or Marion
Nestle, and the TEDMED talk by Sonia Shah: How unhealthy paradigms become contagious.