Medical Anthropology

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Cursusdoel

After completing this course students are able to:
  1. Engage with health and healing from a social science and anthropological perspective
  2. Understand a range of terms and theoretical perspectives used in Medical Anthropology
  3. Apply these concepts and perspectives to case-studies and contemporary affairs.
  4. Find relevant literature to a specific topic and identify the debates it engages with.
  5. Formulate questions that contribute to a focused discussion and grounded arguments.
  6. Demonstrate competencies of critical analysis, integration and reflexivity.
  7. Demonstrate writing and presentation skills.
Description of assignment Weight relate to course aims:
Participation and reading accounts 20% 1,2, 3, 5
Research paper 35% 1,3,4, 5,6,7
(Monograph) book review 25% 3,6,7
session moderation 20% 1,2,3,5,6,7

Vakinhoudelijk

Increasingly more aspects of people's lives have come to be defined as an object of medical intervention under the global expansion of biomedicine. The definition of a condition as a medical problem, its perceived causes and meanings, the institutions involved, the preferred treatments and their accessibility are all locally rooted and culturally framed. This course engages with central concepts and debates in the anthropology of health, illness and medicine. It considers the specificity of local therapeutic communities as well as the processes that connect such systems of knowledge and practice. The production of medical knowledge and healthcare systems – including biomedicine – are also examined, for they, and their social actors, do not exist outside of culture, society and power relations.

Drawing on both classic and contemporary studies, students will be introduced to different theoretical approaches and consider their value for specific research topics. Topics addressed will include the meaning of disease and healing; theories of embodiment, disability and reproduction; medicalization; new medical technologies; and global health. Finally, we will consider how the study of medical knowledge and practice provide a prism to understand social relations and contribute to more general debates concerning issue such as nature-nurture, structural violence; modernity, globalization or commodification.
Format

Weekly sessions include lectures introducing conceptual building blocks and key debates, followed by student lead sessions dedicated to subtopics and case studies. Students are required to come prepared and share insights and questions based on their reading accounts, complete two writing exercises and prepare one presentation and discussion session in teamwork with colleagues. Lectures and readings are occasionally supplemented by documentaries and guest lectures.

Teacher: A.Z. Bakuri, amisah.bakuri@gmail.com

Werkvormen

UCU SSC 3 course

Toetsing

Participation and reading accounts

Verplicht | Weging 20% | ECTS 1,5

Monograph book review

Verplicht | Weging 25% | ECTS 1,88

Research paper

Verplicht | Weging 35% | ECTS 2,63

Session moderation

Verplicht | Weging 20% | ECTS 1,5

*midterm FEEDBACK**

Niet verplicht

Ingangseisen en voorkennis

Voertalen

  • Engels

Competenties

  • Academisch schrijven
  • Debatteren / discoursanalyse
  • Internationale en interculturele oriëntatie
  • Interdisciplinariteit
  • Kritisch lezen
  • Onderzoeksvaardigheden
  • Presenteren
  • Samenwerken

Cursusmomenten

Gerelateerde studies

Tentamens

Er is geen tentamenrooster beschikbaar voor deze cursus

Verplicht materiaal

Materiaal Omschrijving
BOEK Lock, Margaret, and Vinh-Kim Nguyen. 2018. An Anthropology of Biomedicine. Hoboken: Wiley. [second edition] ISBN 9781119069157(epub)* *UU library provides full access to e-book versions
DIVERSE Complimented by journal articles and a monograph (each student will read one full length monograph from a selected list).

Aanbevolen materiaal

Er is geen informatie over de aanbevolen literatuur bekend

Coördinator

dr. S. Kisch S.Kisch@uu.nl

Docenten

dr. S. Kisch S.Kisch@uu.nl

Inschrijving

Let op: deze cursus is niet toegankelijk voor studenten van andere faculteiten, bijvakkers mogen zich dus niet inschrijven.

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