The Harvard University Department of Sociology

Mary Ruggie

Adjunct Professor of Public Policy
(Kennedy School of Government)

Biographical Note

MARY RUGGIE, Adjunct Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, teaches courses on comparative health systems, focusing on Western Europe, and comparative social policy, focusing on gender. Her publications include The State and Working Women: A Comparison of Britain and Sweden (Princeton, 1984), Realignments in the Welfare State: Health Policy in the U.S., Britain and Canada (Columbia, 1996), and Marginal to Mainstream: Alternative Medicine in America (Cambridge, 2004), as well as numerous articles related to these subjects. Ruggie has a PhD in sociology from the University of California at Berkeley. She has taught at Barnard College, the University of California at San Diego, and Columbia University, where she chaired the Sociology Department. She is currently working on issues related to gender and integrated medicine.

06/27/2007

Courses Offered This Academic Year

Sociology 165
( fall 2007 )
Inequalities in Health Care Catalog #8272

A Sampling of Courses Offered in Other Years

Sociology 157 Gender & Social Policy: The U.S. in Comparative Perspective: Conference Course
Gender & Health Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1125

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