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Teaching GuideTerm University College of Physiotherapy |
| Mestrado Universitario en Discapacidade e Dependencia (plan 2015) |
 Subjects |
| Antropoloxía da Saúde e a Discapacidade |
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| Identifying Data | 2015/16 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Antropoloxía da Saúde e a Discapacidade | Code | 651516004 | |||||||||||
| Study programme |
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Official Master's Degree | 1st four-month period |
First | Obligatoria | 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. |
| Unit 2. Methods and techniques of research in social and cultural anthropology. | Fieldwork, participant observation, action research, ethnographic interview, life history, the genealogical method. |
| Unit 3. Relativism and cultural diversity. | Cultures as symbolic representation systems, values ??and behaviors. The interpretation of specific knowledge, values ??and practices in anthropology. |
| Unit 4. History of Anthropology of health. | Biomedicine and culture. The values ??and beliefs of biomedical culture. |
| Unit 5. Medical Anthropology and ethnomedicine. | The new medical anthropology. |
| Unit. 6. Official and unofficial medicine. | Cultural trends and choice. The social construction of doctor, the patient and the diagnostic and therapeutic process. |
| Unit 7. The universe of disease. |
The concept of disease, its problems and its review from a cultural perspective criticism. |
| Unit 8. Illness and Healing: Three theories. | Etiological narrative and symbolic healing practices: Example of 'Corpo Aberto' in Galicia. |
| Unit 9. Illness and healing. | The role of society and culture. |
| Unit 10. Anthropology, disability and dependency. | ----- |
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