UGS 2255-001 Medical Humanities: Art, Medicine,& Culture: Films

"O'odham Indians, living on reservations in southern Arizona, have perhaps the highest rate of Type 2 diabetes in the world."

"Recent Mexican immigrants tend to be healthier than the average American. But those health advantages erode the longer they've been here. What causes health to worsen as immigrants become American?"

"African American infant mortality rates remain twice as high as for white Americans. African American mothers with college degrees or higher face the same risk of having low birth-weight babies as white women who haven't finished high school. How might the chronic stress of racism over the life course become embedded in our bodies and increase risks?"

"Follows patients and families facing critical medical decisions as they navigate their way through the health care system.
Alicia Mercado, a 60-year-old woman from Puerto Rico, has strong beliefs about using natural home remedies to treat the diabetes, hypertension, asthma and depression which have been aggravated by her eviction from her apartment of 18 years. Part of the 4-part series on cross-cultural healthcae