Wellbeing, Ethics, and Care Systems (SZF_263)
About Study Course
Objective
The objective of the study course is to equip students with theoretical knowledge and analytical skills to understand how health, wellbeing, disease, and medicine are differently defined, practiced, and experienced within diverse socio-cultural, economic, and political contexts.
Prerequisites
Preferred prior knowledge in classical and modern theories of anthropology.
Learning outcomes
1.Students are familiar with diverse subfields of medical anthropology and understand how anthropology provides methodological and conceptual frameworks beyond biomedicine that helps assess the experience of diseases, disorders, illnesses, and wellbeing, as well as the epistemological dimensions of disease categories.
1.Students can explain how health and disease are affected by the individual, social, political, and cultural dimensions, comparing and contrasting specific cases, based on the literature read and reviewed in the course.
1.Students can competently judge and discuss the social, cultural, global/local political and economic processes that affect and shape health and disease.
Study course planning
| Study programme | Study semester | Program level | Study course category | Lecturers | Schedule |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social Anthropology | 2 | Master's | Required |
