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This course provides an introduction to the sociology of health and illness. The main objective of this course, divided equally into lectures and seminars, is to equip students with basic conceptual and heuristic tools to carry out a critical and theoretically informed scrutiny of health and health care, focusing on the key actors, processes and structural context of health and health care in contemporary societies. The course will provide students with an overview of key scholars in the field, reviews main theoretical concepts and outlines the links between health and social theory. More specifically, during lectures and seminars the following areas will be discussed: the political economy of health care, digital technologies and health, health care professions, doctor-patient relationships, as well as health social movements. Moreover, attention will be given to health inequalities, mental health and illness, antibiotic resistance, vaccine hesitancy and artificial intelligence. Poslední úprava: Numerato Dino, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (15.09.2024)
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More detailed information will be published on Moodle from 1 October: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=16565 Students of SCM and SCS programmes will be given priority in entering the course. The course takes place in person only, room C220, Jinonice, Tuesday 15,30-16,50 (The MS Teams link you can see in SIS is exclusively used for students who cannot attend the courses in person due to visa problems) Week 1 (1 Oct): Course introduction Week 2 (8 Oct): Thinking sociologically about health, illness and medicine: perspectives, theories and concepts (Lecture) Week 3 (15 Oct): Seminar 1: Stigmatization, mental health & illness Week 4 (22 Oct): Healthcare professions (Lecture) Week 5 (29 Oct): Seminar 2: Professional practice and antibiotic resistance Week 6 (5 Nov): reading week Week 7 (12 Nov): Doctor-Patient Relationship (Lecture) Week 8 (19 Nov): Seminar 3: Engaged patients and vaccine hesitancy Week 9 (26 Nov): Digital Health (Lecture) Week 10 (3 Dec): Seminar 4: Exploring digital health: Digital healthcare and Artificial Intelligence Week 11 (10 Dec): Health social movements (Lecture) Week 12 (17 Dec): Seminar 5: Health activism and its impact: Mobilization against health inequalities Week 13 (6 Jan): Discussing final essay outlines
Poslední úprava: Numerato Dino, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (02.10.2024)
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