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Fries, Christopher J.

Associate Professor, Sociology

Research Affiliate, Centre on Aging

Email: Christopher.Fries@umanitoba.ca

Home Page: http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/departments/sociology/facstaff/fries.html

Keywords

Keyword Discipline

Alternative Medicine

Health/Medical

Behavior and Health

Health/Medical

Critical Public Health

Behavioral/Social Sciences

Folk Medicine

Health/Medical

Health Care

Health/Medical

Health Disparities

Health/Medical

Health Lifestyles

Behavioral/Social Sciences

Health Promotion

Health/Medical

Health Sociology

Behavioral/Social Sciences

Holistic Medicine

Health/Medical

Medical Consumerism

Behavioral/Social Sciences

Medical Errors

Health/Medical

Medical Pluralism

Behavioral/Social Sciences

Medical Sociology

Behavioral/Social Sciences

Mind-Body Health/Medicine

Health/Medical

Mixed Methods Research

Behavioral/Social Sciences

Physician/Patient Relationship

Health/Medical

Population Health

Behavioral/Social Sciences

Public Health

Health/Medical

social determinants of health

Behavioral/Social Sciences

Sociology of the Body

Behavioral/Social Sciences

Research Description

Christopher J. Fries is a sociologist of health, medicine, and the body whose primary research interests are in health lifestyles, critical public health, the social determinants of health, and complementary / alternative medicine and medical pluralism, or the existence of multiple systems of health care practice and belief. He has published sociological research investigating: people’s motivations for the use of complementary / alternative medicine; the relationship between ethnicity and the use of alternative healing practices; family physicians opinions of alternative medical therapies; the emergence of integrative medicine; and the social determinants of health.

Teaching Description

At the undergraduate level, I regularly teach “Introduction to Sociology” ( SOC 1200 ), “The Sociology of Health and Illness” ( SOC 2490 ), and “The Sociology of Health Care Systems” ( SOC 3540 ). At the graduate level, I teach a seminar in “Issues in Health Care” ( SOC 7370). If you are interested in my courses, please feel free to contact me for copies of course syllabi or a Statement of Philosophy Informing my Teaching Practices.

Public/Media (Non-Technical) Description

Christopher J. Fries is a sociologist of health, medicine, and the body whose primary research interests are in health lifestyles, critical public health, the social determinants of health, and complementary / alternative medicine and medical pluralism, or the existence of multiple systems of health care practice and belief. He has published sociological research investigating: people’s motivations for the use of complementary / alternative medicine; the relationship between ethnicity and the use of alternative healing practices; family physicians opinions of alternative medical therapies; the emergence of integrative medicine; and the social determinants of health.

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