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In this course various links between human health, disease and socio-cultural conditions will be studied. Health, disease and health care will be explored in the historical and cultural perspective. Paradigms of health and disease in ancient and modern cultures will be compared.
Selected topis from the list will be presented: Religious and spiritual aspects of human illnesses and treatments will be investigated. Focus on health and health promotion in religious systems will be discovered. A special focus will be paid to extreme and life changing situations like dying, suicide, lethal illness, stillbirth, abortion, loss in the family, injury etc. Archaic, traditional and modern medical systems will be compared and discussed. Medicalization of modern society will be demonstrated. Complementary and alternative medicine as a part of integrated medicine. Pedagogical tools: This course is based on ACTIVE LEARNING. Lectures will be combined with seminars (reading and discussions) Students will be encouraged to contribute actively to the course content by means of their written essays, presentations and group discussions. This course is suitable for Erasmus incoming students who can contribute to the intercultural and international perspective in perceiving health and disease as cultural phenomena. Poslední úprava: Křížová Eva, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (06.05.2016)
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Illich, I.: Limits to medicine : Medical Nemesis : the expropriation of health : with a new introduction by the author . London : Marion Boyars Publishers, 2010, ©1995. Foucault, M.: The birth of a clinic. Taylor & Francis, 2003 Albretch GL, Fitzpatrick R Scrimshaw S, (2000) Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine. London, Sage. Anderson, Robert (1996) Magic, Science and Health. The Aims and the Achievements of Medical Anthropology. Fort Worth, Harcourt Brace. Janzen JM (2002) The Social Fabric of Health. An Introduction to MedicalAnthropology, New York, McGraw-Hill. Wiley, AS (2008) Medical anthropology: a biocultural approach. University of Southern California Křížová, E. : Alternative Medicine: A Dispute on Truth, Power or Money? In: Rehmann-Sutter, Ch., Düwell, M., Mieth, D. (eds.), Bioethics in Cultural Contexts. Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 197-210. 2006 Scambler, Graham; Higgs, Paul (1998). Modernity, Medicine, and Health: Medical Sociology Towards 2000. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-14938-9. OCLC 37573644. Conrad, Peter (2007). The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8584-6. OCLC 72774268. Helman, Cecil (2007). Culture, Health, and Illness (5th ed.). London, England: Hodder Arnold. ISBN 978-0-340-91450-2. OCLC 74966843. Pedro Lain Entralgo and Frances Partridge: Doctor and Patient. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, [1969 ]. Pedro Lain Entralgo: Therapy of the Word in Classical Antiquity, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1970 Roy Porter: The greatest benefit to mankind: a medical history of humanity.New York : W. W. Norton, 1998,1997. http://www.hagioterapie.cz, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_anthropology, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnomedicine Poslední úprava: Křížová Eva, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (08.08.2013)
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Lectures, seminars, reading, active student work - search and compilation, presentations, discussions Poslední úprava: Křížová Eva, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (06.05.2016)
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Course conditions contain: 1) active participation in the lesson, 2) presentation of 1 reading or assignment to the class, 3)written assignment of 5-7 pages and 4) a portofolio of 3 readings with one page reports each. See https://moodle.etf.cuni.cz/moodle/login/index.php Poslední úprava: Křížová Eva, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (06.05.2016)
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During the course students will learn about the major topics of the medical sociology 1) Health and disease (illness, sickness) Poslední úprava: Křížová Eva, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (16.02.2021)
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good proficiency of English language, students will read and communicate in English. Preference will be given to students of higher school years. Poslední úprava: Křížová Eva, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (30.06.2016)
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