Course
Course 7.5 credits • SASH47
The course SASH47 is currently not being offered
The course examines questions of health, lifestyle and medicine from cultural analytical and ethnographic perspectives. The course approaches different urgent societal issues relating to illness, diagnosis and wellbeing in contemporary and historical societies. These issues are discussed in relation to different cases: the meeting between doctor and patient, living with chronic disease, controversial biotechnological diagnoses and treatments, discourses on risk and responsibility, etc. The course is based on current research in ethnology, medical anthropology and cultural studies, including questions about the body, illness experiences, disability, ethics and the new health economy. Theoretical understanding of how aspects of identity, class, gender, ethnicity and age intervene in medical treatments and lifestyle patterns will be offered in lectures, seminars and group exercises. On completion of the course the students will have insight into the cultural dimensions of illness and health.
Study period:
spring semester 2012
Type of studies:
part time, 25 %,
day
Study period:
2012-01-27 – 2012-06-01
Language of instruction:
English
Application code:
LU-E7021
Eligibility:
You must have successfully completed an upper secondary education (post-16) that gives access to universities in your home country. If you received your final school grades after 31 December 2009, there is an additional entry requirement for mathematics as follows: you must have successfully completed courses in mathematics to reach the level of the Swedish course Mathematics A (approximately 10 years of mathematics studies). This mathematics requirement does not apply to students who received their final school grades before 1 January 2010. English B (advanced) language proficiency
Application code:
LU-70561
Eligibility:
Completed secondary education and courses corresponding to the following Swedish Upper Secondary School Programs: Mathematics A and Civics A. English A (basic) language proficiency