|
Teaching GuideTerm University College of Physiotherapy |
| Mestrado Universitario en Discapacidade e Dependencia (plan 2015) |
 Subjects |
| Antropoloxía da Saúde e a Discapacidade |
| Methodologies |
|
|
| Identifying Data | 2015/16 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Antropoloxía da Saúde e a Discapacidade | Code | 651516004 | |||||||||||
| Study programme |
|
|||||||||||||
| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Official Master's Degree | 1st four-month period |
First | Obligatoria | 4.5 | ||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||
| Methodologies | Description |
| Supervised projects | Students will choice to work one of the following thematic options: 1. Perception, classification and emic experience of desease or disability, and socio-cultural constraints of their therapeutic possibilities as types of ailments. The specific process of conflict and negotiation between specialists and patients. 2. Models, replies and alternatives to the sociocultural construction of the categories illness / healing / health, or disability / processing / integration, and the specialist / patient or specialist / disabled roles. The methodology will consist of a small study of the theme chosen, from the very professional, care or student learning experience, supported by the empirical description of some cases associated with one of the above issues, and developing an interpretation that takes into account social processes and cultural operating around the phenomenon of disease-treatment or disability. Due to the characteristics of the course, object and purpose of the study will be very specific, and limited the scope of analysis. |
| Objective test | It will consist of conducting a thematic review through short answer questions, the date and time marked for the purpose by the organization of the master. |
| Guest lecture / keynote speech | Presentation in class by the teacher, based on power-point projections, about the matter of each of the ten agenda items. Clarification and discussion of controversial or special interest questions to the presented issues. |
| Workbook | Reading, summary presentation in each session, and open discussion of 11 readings about issues concerning anthropology of health and disability : Readings to discuss in class: 1ª- Seppilli, Tullio (2000) “De qué hablamos cuando hablamos de factores culturales en salud. A modo de presentación”, en Perdiguero y Comelles (eds.) Medicina y cultura. Barcelona, Bellaterra. 2ª- Jauregui Balenciaga, Inmaculada (2006) “La anorexia. Una patología cultural de la modernidad”, en Gazeta de Antropología, 22 (Rev.electrónica). 3ª- Cátedra, María (1989) “Especialistas de la curación. La integración tradicional de la modernidad”, en Actas do I Coloquio de Antropoloxía. Santiago, Xunta 4ª- Douglas, Mary (1998) “La elección entre lo somático y lo espiritual. Algunas preferencias médicas”, en Estilos de pensar. Barcelona, Gedisa. 5ª- McCombie, Susan “Folk Flu and Viral Syndrome. An Anthropological Perspective”, en Hahn, Robert Anthropolgy and Public Health. 6ª- Otegui, Rosario (2000) “Factores culturales del dolor y el sufrimiento”, en Perdiguero y Comelles (eds.) Medicina y cultura. Barcelona, Bellaterra. 7ª- Brandes, Stanley (2004) “Buenas noches, compañeros. Historias de vida en Alcohólicos Anónimos”. En Revista de Antropología Social, Vol. 13. 2004 8ª- Rengel Morales, Manuel (2005) “La construcción social del otro. Estigma, prejuicio e identidad en drogodependientes”. Gazeta de Antropología, nº 21. Rev. electrónica. 9ª- Daley, Tamara / Thomas Weisner (2003) “’I speak a different dialect’: Teen Explanatory models of difference and disability”, en Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 17. 10ª- Sengas & Monagham (2002) “Sign of their times: Deaf Communities and the Culture of Language”, en Annual Review of Anthropology”, ,nº 31. 2002 En Revistas Electrónicas UDC – Servidor Jstor. 11ª- Lock, Margaret "Death in Technological Time: Locating the End of Meaningful Life", en Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 10 |
| Critical bibliographical | Making brief critical comments on the following readings: 1ª Lísón Tolosana, Carmelo (2007) "Obertura en tono menor (Horizontes antropológicos)". Cap. 1º de Introducción a la Antropología social y cultural. Madrid, Akal 2ª Martínez, Angel (2008) "Símbolos, cuerpos y aflicciones. Las teorías culturales de la enfermedad", cap. 3º de Antropología médica. Teorías sobre la cultura, el poder y la enfermedad. Barcelona, Anthropos. 3º Preat, J., Pujades, J., Comelles, J.(1980) "Sobre el contexto cultural del enfermar", en Kenny, Michael y Jesus M. de Miguel, comps. La antropología médica en España. Barcelona, Anagrama |
|
