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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 | 2022/23 | |||||||||||||
| 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. |
| Unit 2. The research methods and techniques in Social and Cultural Anthropology. | Fieldwork, participant observation, action research, the interview ethnographic, the history of life, the genealogical method. |
| Topic 3 Relativism and cultural diversity. The cultural concept of normality. | Cultures as symbolic systems of representations, values and behaviors. The interpretation of the specific knowledge, values and local practices in Anthropology. |
| Theme 4º Anthropology of health. Disciplinary history. | The anthropological perspective of disease and healing; The illness; The healing |
| Topic 5º Medical anthropology and ethnomedicine. | Cultural premises of biomedicine; The field of biomedicine and its compartmentalization in specialities; Values and practice in biomedicine; |
| Topic 6 º Cultural trends and choice in medicine and health. | The social construction of the doctor, the patient and the diagnostic-therapeutic process. |
| Topic 7º. The universe of illness, disability and dependence. | Deficiency, disability and handicap. The dependence |
| Topic 8º. Illness and healing Three theories | Cultural approach. Ecological approach. Socio-political approach |
| Topic 9º. Disability: The role of society and culture. | Perception as an interpretation The view in the west; conclusio |
| Topic 10th. Applied anthropology in disability | The critique of the cultural assumptions of disability. From disability to functional diversity |
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