Module ANT3085 for 2016/7
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
ANT3085: Health, Illness and Bodies in Contemporary Society Part 1: Medicine and Social Control
This module descriptor refers to the 2016/7 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics:
1. Ideas of Health and Illness
2. Experiences of Illness
3. Biomedicine and its Objects
4. Medicalization
5. Healthcare and the Market
6. Mental Health
7. Inequality and Structural Violence
8. ‘Women’s Health’ and the Politics of Reproduction
9. Longevity and the End of Life
10. Culture, Healthcare, and Medical Pluralism
11. Care
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
---|---|---|
22 | 128 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
Category | Hours of study time | Description |
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Scheduled learning activity | 11 | 11 x 1hour lectures |
Scheduled learning activity | 11 | 11 x 1 hour tutorials |
Guided independent study | 40 | 11 course readings |
Guided independent study | 40 | Reading/research for essay |
Guided independent study | 8 | Critique preparation |
Guided independent study | 40 | Reading/revisions for exam |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
Journals: Social Science and Medicine, Medical Anthropology, Sociology of Health and Illness, Health
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Helman C. 1990: Culture, Health and Illness. 4th ed. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann.
Janzen J. 2002: The Social Fabric of Health. Boston: McGraw Hill.
Singer, M., & Baer, H. (2012). Introducing medical anthropology : A discipline in action (2nd ed.). Lanham, Md. ; Plymouth: Altamira Press.
Pool R & Geissler W. 2005: Medical Anthropology. London: Open University.
Johnson TM & Sargent CF. (eds) 1990: Medical Anthropology: a Handbook of Theory and Method. Greenwood.
Good B.J. 7 al. (eds) 2010: A Reader in Medical Anthropology. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
Bury, M & Gabe, J. (eds.) 2004. The sociology of health and illness: A Reader. London: Routledge Nichter M & Lock M. (eds) 2002: New Horizons in Medical Anthropology. London: Routledge