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Teaching GuideTerm University College of Physiotherapy |
| Mestrado Universitario en Discapacidade e Dependencia (plan 2015) |
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| Health Anthropology |
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| Identifying Data | 2023/24 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Health Anthropology | Code | 651516004 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Official Master's Degree | 1st four-month period |
First | Obligatory | 4.5 | ||||||||||
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| Topic | Sub-topic |
| Unit 1. The social and cultural anthropology as a discipline. | What is Anthropology; What is its object and method. |
| Theme 2. Overview of anthropological approaches to disability and rehabilitation | Evolution of the study of disability and rehabilitation in cultural anthropology. Anthropological texts about disability and rehabilitation |
| Theme 3. Relativism and cultural diversity. The cultural concept of normality | Cultures as symbolic systems of representations, values and behaviors. Stigma and disability. anthropological perspective |
| Theme 4. Biomedicine as culture. Values and contradictions of biomedicine, and its implications in mediation | Cultural premises of biomedicine; The field of biomedicine and its compartimentalization into specialities; Values and practice in biomedicine; |
| Theme 5. Anthropology of health. Sickness and healing | The anthropological perspective of illness and healing; The illness; The healing |
| Theme 6. The universe of disability and dependency. Relationship, and conceptual evolution. | Deficiency, disability and handicap. The dependence |
| Theme 7. Towards a critique of disability the relativity of sensory organization | Perception as interpretation. The view in the west. New capabilities |
| Theme 8. Disability and labor integration | Disability and accessibility to employment. Problems, possibilities, experiences and emic story |
| Theme 9. Applied anthropology in disability | The critique of the cultural assumptions of disability. From disability to functional diversity |
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