SAN231 Anthropology, body, and medicine

Faculty of Social Studies
Autumn 2010
Extent and Intensity
1/1. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Eva Šlesingerová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Adéla Souralová, Ph.D. (assistant)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Eva Šlesingerová, Ph.D.
Division of Social Anthropology – Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies
Timetable
Thu 18:00–19:30 P24
Prerequisites
The main objective of the course is to introduce to the student main topics in the field of body and social anthropology.At the end of this course, students should be able to understand and from the social anthropological perspective to discuss topics such as body, menstruation, sexuality, health, illness, anthropology and medicine, etc.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 100 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/100, only registered: 0/100, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/100
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Course objectives
The main objective of the course is to introduce to the student main topics in the field of social anthropology of medicine and the body.
Syllabus
  • 1. Anthropoly and the Body
  • 2. What is it body? Illness vs. Health
  • 3. Anthropology, medicinmen and medicines, ethnography end medicine
  • 4. DNA, genom and the Human embryo
  • 5. Etnopsychiatry/ Abnormal
  • 6. reading week
  • 7. Sexuality
  • 8. Etnography dis/abled bodies, death bodies
  • 9. Childbirth, IVF
  • 10. Menstruation
  • 11. Moon inside you
  • 12. essay presentation
Literature
  • Commodifying bodies. Edited by Nancy Scheper-Hughes - Loïc Wacquant. London ;: Sage Publications, 2002, 199 s. ISBN 0761940340. info
  • FOUCAULT, Michel. The birth of the clinic : an archaeology of medical perception. Translated by Alan Sheridan. 1st pub. London: Routledge, 1989, xxii, 266. ISBN 0415307724. info
Teaching methods
Lectures, class discussion
Assessment methods
Teaching method: lectures Examination: essay (50%) and oral/written exam (50%)
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
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