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| Swedish title | Hälsa och medicin i sociokulturellt sammanhang: Introduktion till medicinsk antropologi |
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| English title | Health and medicine in cultural context: introduction to medical anthropology |
| Course number | 2826 |
| Credits | 3.0 |
| Responsible KI department | Institutionen för global folkhälsa |
| Specific entry requirements | |
| Grading | Passed /Not passed |
| Established by | The Board of Doctoral Education |
| Established | 2016-09-07 |
| Purpose of the course | Students will develop an understanding of how sociocultural factors affect health and sickness, healthcare and healthcare expectations, and epidemiological patterns. In addition, students will develop an understanding of how ethnographic methods can be used in health and health services research to better understand target populations. Finally, students will develop awareness of how Western sociocultural ideas and assumptions permeate healthcare and healthcare research. |
| Intended learning outcomes | At the course's completion students will be able to: - Describe the way culture shapes concepts of health, the experience of illness, expectations of care, and patterns of social interaction that affect the meeting between health care providers and their patients. - Analyse fundamental social and cultural factors that influence the provision of health care and adherence to care regimens - Analyse the complex and nuanced ways in which economic conditions, social structures, and cultural values relate to and inform one another - Apply cultural understandings of the body, health, illness and family relationships in both research and clinical settings - Be self-reflective in dealing with people from other cultures in research and clinical settings - Apply an anthropological perspective to interdisciplinary research |
| Contents of the course | - The concepts of culture and society in relation to health and medicine - Nutritional, biological and ecological research in medical anthropology - Qualitative research methods and interdisciplinary research, including ethnographic methods - The relationship between ""cultural"" factors and underlying societal power structures - The ""culture"" of global health institutions and initiatives - The relationship between patients and pharmaceutical products |
| Teaching and learning activities | Lectures and seminars |
| Compulsory elements | Missed seminars and lectures are to be made up with written assignments. |
| Examination | Formal individual assessment during lectures and seminars including assignment presentation, and by written paper. |
| Literature and other teaching material | Hsu, E. and Potter, C, eds. (2014) Medical Anthropology in Europe: Shaping the field. Routledge. Pool, R. and Geissler, W. (2005) Medical Anthropology. Understanding Public Health. Open University Press. Closser, Svea (2010) Chasing Polio in Pakistan. Why the World's Largest Public Health Initiative May Fail. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press Rylko-Bauer, Barbara,Whiteford, Linda and Paul Farmer, eds (2009) Global Health in Times of Violence. SAR Press. Fadiman, Anne 1997 The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux. + Case studies and recent scientific articles will be distributed through the online platform. |
Course responsible |
Rachel Irwin Institutionen för global folkhälsa rachel.irwin@ki.se |
| Contact person |
Rebecca Popenoe Institutionen för neurobiologi, vårdvetenskap och samhälle 0852483924 Rebecca.Popenoe@ki.se Rachel Irwin Institutionen för global folkhälsa rachel.irwin@ki.se |
