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166-091 Medicine, Health and Illness | |
Note | Formerly available as 166-267/367. Students who have completed 166-267/367 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
HECS Band | 1 |
Coordinator | Tim Marjoribanks |
Prerequisites | 25 points of first year sociology. |
Semester | 1 (view timetable) |
Contact | A 1.5-hour lecture and a 1-hour tutorial per week |
Subject Description | This subject examines how medical knowledge, practice, and technology, as well as individual and group experiences of health and illness, are socially shaped and organised. The subject begins with analyses of the medical profession, of medical education, and of medical-state relations. The subject then considers the social experience of health and illness in terms of relations including gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality and class, with specific reference to HIV/AIDS. Attention will then be turned to technological and scientific developments in medicine, and their role in the social construction of medicine and of medical practice. Of particular interest here will be developments in organ transplantation and cloning, in the global biomedical and biotechnology industries, and the significance of those developments for local research and medical practice. Students should complete the subject with a sociological understanding of the social construction of medicine, health and illness and have gained experience in sociological research methods. |
Assessment | Two research papers of 2000 words each. |
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