Course

Course 7.5 credits • SASH61

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.

Study period: spring semester 2025
Type of studies: part time, 33 %, day
Study period: 2025-03-07 – 2025-05-23
Language of instruction: English
Eligibility: General requirements for university studies in Sweden

Application code: LU-E1015

Application code: LU-70501

Second Admission Round
Nationell ansökningsomgång
Spring semester 2025

Late application

Opens 13 December

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