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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 | 2017/18 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Health Anthropology | 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. Overview of anthropological approaches to disability and rehabilitation | Evolution of the study of disability and rehabilitation in cultural anthropology; Cultural Anthropology Literature on Disability and Rehabilitation; How can anthropology contribute to research on disability and rehabilitation |
| Unit 3. The cultural concept of normality. Anthropological perspective. | Liminality; Stigmatization; Some of the strategies to resist stigma |
| Unit 4. The anthropological perspective of health. Concepts of disease and healing | The anthropological perspective of disease and healing; The illness; The healing |
| Unit 5. Biomedicine as a culture. Values and contradictions of biomedicine | Cultural premises of biomedicine; The field of biomedicine and its compartmentalization in specialties; Values and practice in biomedicine; |
| Unit. 6. The new medical anthropology | Following biomedicine and public health where they lead. The "omics", biosciences and biomedical gyration. Bioethics and regulatory regimes Stem cells, gender and the modification of bodies. Drugs, the political economy of health and global medical markets. |
| Unit 7. Disability and dependency. Relationship and conceptual evolution |
Deficiency, disability and disability. The dependence |
| Unit 8. Disability, identity and society. | Turning around with the changes in the concept of disability Victimization and identities |
| Unit 9. Towards a critique of disability: the relativity of sensory organization | Perception as an interpretation The view in the west; conclusio |
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