MZKSZ0411s Sociology of health, disease and healthcare - p

Faculty of Medicine
spring 2024
Extent and Intensity
0/1/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Lenka Slepičková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Tereza Friessová (assistant)
Mgr. Bc. Alena Langaufová, Ph.D. (assistant)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Lenka Slepičková, Ph.D.
Institute for Research in Inclusive Education – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Mgr. Bc. Alena Langaufová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Health Sciences – Departments of Non-medical Branches – Faculty of Medicine
Timetable
Thu 15. 2. 17:00–19:30 F01B1/530, Fri 12. 4. 13:00–14:40 F01B1/519
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course introduces students to social aspects of health, illness and medicine. We will focus on the crucial topics in the field such as health inequalities, the profession of medicine, the experience of illness and disability, the social dimension of illness and diagnosis etc. We will work with particular examples and various type of materials, beside textbooks and academic papers also with media coverage, statistics, empirical material of both qualitative and quantitative nature.
Learning outcomes
- Give a basic account of sociological theories of health, illness and associated social roles
- Think critically about definitions of health and illness, and the way our healthcare system currently addresses illness.
- Explain main sources of health inequalities
- Describe the development of medicine as an institution and the development of the relationship between patient and doctor
- Acquire an understanding of the importance of the patients´experiences while researching health, illness and health care systems
- Be familiar with the most used and most appropriate ways and tools for researching in the field of health, medicine and health system
Syllabus
  • 1. The most important sociological theories of health, illness and medicine and related concepts
  • 2. Social dimension of health and social determinants of health
  • 3. Health, illness and medicine – Diagnosis as a social and cultural representation and praxis
  • 4. Medicine and society – medicalization, development of the medicine as an institution
  • 5. Physician and patient – their roles and relationship
  • 6. Research in the field of health, illness and medicine, commonly used methods and tools, participative research and including the „voice of patients“
Literature
    required literature
  • FOUCAULT, Michel. Zrození kliniky. Červený Kostelec: Pavel Mervart, 2010. ISBN 978-80-87378-29-8. (Kapitola 4, str. 73-85, kapitola 5, str. 85 -111 a kapitola 7, str.131-149).
  • TIMMERMANS, Stefan a Hyeyoung OH. The continued social transformation of the medical profession. Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 2010, 51 Suppl, S94-106. ISSN 0022-1465.
  • CONRAD, Peter. Medicalization and Social Control. Annual Review of Sociology. 1992, 18(1), 209–232.
  • BEAGAN, B. L. Neutralizing differences: producing neutral doctors for (almost) neutral patients. Social Science & Medicine. 2000, 51(8), 1253–1265. ISSN 0277-9536.
  • CLARKE, Adele E., Janet K. SHIM, Laura MAMO, Jennifer Ruth FOSKET a Jennifer R. FISHMAN. Biomedicalization: Technoscientific Transformations of Health, Illness, and U.S. Biomedicine. American Sociological Review. 2003, 68(2), 161–194. ISSN 0003-1224.
  • LUPTON, Deborah. Medicine as culture: illness, disease and the body. 3rd ed. Los Angeles: SAGE, 2012. ISBN 978-1-4462-0894-6.
  • PORTER, Roy. Dějiny medicíny : od starověku po současnost. Translated by Jaroslav Hořejší. V českém jazyce vyd. 2. Praha: Prostor, 2013, 809 s. ISBN 9788072602872. info
  • KŘÍŽOVÁ, Eva. Proměny lékařské profese z pohledu sociologie. Vydání první. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství, 2006, 142 stran. ISBN 8086429571. info
  • BÁRTLOVÁ, Sylva. Sociologie medicíny a zdravotnictví. 6., přepracované a doplně. Praha: Grada Publishing, 2005, 188 stran. ISBN 8024711974. info
  • SONTAG, Susan. Nemoc jako metafora ; AIDS a jeho metafory. Edited by Susan Sontag. Vyd. 1. Praha: Mladá fronta, 1997, 171 s. ISBN 8020405879. info
    recommended literature
  • MIECH, Richard, Fred PAMPEL, Jinyoung KIM a Richard G. ROGERS. The Enduring Association between Education and Mortality: The Role of Widening and Narrowing Disparities. American sociological review. 2011, 76(6), 913–934. ISSN 0003-1224.
  • BROWN, Phil. Naming and Framing: The Social Construction of Diagnosis and Illness. Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 1995, 34–52. ISSN 0022-1465.
  • GAWANDE, Atul. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2014. ISBN 1627790551.
  • FISHMAN, Jennifer R. Manufacturing desire: the commodification of female sexual dysfunction. Social Studies of Science. 2004, 34(2), 187–218. ISSN 0306-3127.
  • ŠMÍDOVÁ, Iva a Lenka SLEPIČKOVÁ. Lékaři a vyhoření: ožehavá každodennost medicíny pohledem sociologie. In Radek Ptáček; Jiří Raboch; Vladimír Kebza. Burnout syndrom jako mezioborový jev. Praha: Grada Publishing, 2013. s. 97-104.
  • READ, Jen’nan Ghazal a Bridget K. GORMAN. Gender and Health Inequality. Annual Review of Sociology. 2010, 36(1), 371–386.
  • BUSFIELD, Joan. Pills, Power, People: Sociological Understandings of the Pharmaceutical Industry. Sociology. 2006, 40(2), 297–314. ISSN 0038-0385.
  • RIER, David. The Patient’s Experience of Illness. In: BIRD, Chloe E., a kol (eds.). Handbook of Medical Sociology, Sixth Edition : Vanderbilt University Press, 2010, s. 163-178. ISBN 978-0-8265-1722-7.
Teaching methods
Seminar, group work, discussion, assessments
Assessment methods
1. Assessments based on a reading
2. Test assessment (at least 65 % of the maximum score)
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
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