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Conditions of Life - Health - Identity, continuation course, 7.5 credits
Livsvillkor - hälsa - identitet , fortsättningskurs, 7.5 hp
740G02
Main field of study
Social and Culture AnalysisCourse level
First cycleCourse type
Single subject and programme courseExaminer
Ann-Charlotte NedlundCourse coordinator
Ann-Charlotte NedlundDirector of studies or equivalent
Zoran SlavnicECV = Elective / Compulsory / Voluntary
| Course offered for | Semester | Weeks | Language | Campus | ECV | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F7KSK | Bachelor´s Programme in Social and Cultural Analysis | 3 (Autumn 2019) | 201939-201943 | Swedish | Norrköping, Norrköping | C |
Main field of study
Social and Culture AnalysisCourse level
First cycleAdvancement level
G1XCourse offered for
- Bachelor´s Programme in Social and Cultural Analysis
Entry requirements
For admission to the course, general entry requirements for second-cycle studies apply, as well as the specific entry regulations that apply to the Bachelor's Programme in Social and Cultural Analysis. In addition, 45 HE credits approved in Social and Cultural Analysis, school year 1, are required.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of the course, the student should be able to:
- analyse different theories and ideas of health, and how these have been changed over time and depending on cultural context
- reflect on relations between health and living conditions, and between health and identity forming processes
- analyse ideas and manifestations of health issues in different social, generational and cultural contexts
Course content
The course covers issues that concern the importance of health for the living conditions and identity of people. The initial part of the course covers health issues, medical examinations and preventive measures, partly in a historical perspective, partly in present day. Various health concepts are presented and discussed. Economic, social and cultural factors of significance to people's health are identified. Particular focus is on the implications of disability and chronic disease for living conditions and identities. The course also highlights other perspectives of significance in the context, such as age, class and ethnicity.
Teaching and working methods
The teaching is based on student active working methods. Accordingly, the teaching takes the form of, for example, lectures, individual and group exercises, as well as through supervision.
Examination
The examinations are normally both in oral and written form. Oral examination comprises oral presentations of group examination assignments and participation in the discussion of the assignments. Written examination comprises an individual assignment and group work. The course is examined in several parts. A passing grade in the course requires a passing grade in all parts of the examination.
Students failing an exam covering either the entire course or part of the course twice are entitled to have a new examiner appointed for the reexamination.
Students who have passed an examination may not retake it in order to improve their grades.
Grades
Three-grade scale, U, G, VGOther information
Planning and implementation of a course must take its starting point in the wording of the syllabus. The course evaluation included in each course must therefore take up the question how well the course agrees with the syllabus.
The course is carried out in such a way that both men´s and women´s experience and knowledge is made visible and developed.
Department
Institutionen för samhälls- och välfärdsstudier| Code | Name | Scope | Grading scale |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRU3 | Exercises 1 | 1.5 credits | U, G |
| GRU4 | Exercises 3 | 3 credits | U, G |
| IND2 | Exercises 2 | 3 credits | U, G, VG |
| OBL2 | Exercises | 0 credits | D |
| OBL3 | Exercises | 0 credits | D |
| OBL1 | Exercises | 0 credits | D |
Course literature is preliminary.
Litteraturlista Ett flertal av artiklarna i litteraturlistan finns i mappen Kursdokument i LISAM, övrig litteratur finns på biblioteket eller införskaffas på egen hand. I Lisam finns även ett dokument med referenslitteratur, kolla gärna på denna. Här finns många bra förslag på litteratur, de flesta sorterat efter tema, som kan användas inför examinationsuppgifterna.
Ahmed, S. (2010) Vithetens fenomenologi, Tidskrift för genusvetenskap, nr 1-2: 49–69. Alaimo, S & Hekman, S. J. (2008). Introduction: Emerging Models of Materiality in Feminist Theory, i Alaimo, S & Hekman, S. J. Material Feminisms, Indiana University Press, s. 1–19. Armstrong, D. (2007) Professionalism, indeterminacy and the EBM project” BioSocieties, 2(1): 73–84. Birke, L. (2003) Shaping biology: Feminism and the idea of ’the biological’, i Williams, S. J., Birke, L.. & Bendelow, G. (red.) Debating biology: sociological reflections on health, medicine and society. London: Routledge, s. 39–52. Butler, J. (1997) Från konstruktion till materialisering. I Bodies that matter, Res Publica, 35/36, s. 24–35. Bremer, S. (2011). Kroppslinjer: kön, transsexualism och kropp i berättelser om könskorrigering. Göteborg: Göteborgs universitet. Cederström, C. & Spicer, A. (2015) Wellness-syndromet, Hägersten: Tankekraft, s. 9– 17. Clarke, A.(red.) (2010). Biomedicalization: technoscience, health, and illness in the U.S.. i Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Eriksson, Y. & Göthlund, A. (2012). Möten med bilder: att tolka visuella uttryck. (2 rev. Uppl), Lund: Studentlitteratur. Fausto-Sterling, A. (2011) Problemet med kön/genus och arv/miljö, i Gislén, Y., Olofsson, J. & Örestig, J. (red.) Människans natur. Malmö: Tidskriftsföreningen Fronesis, s. 150–161. Fine, C. (2010) From Scanner to Sound Bite: Issues in Interpreting and Reporting Sex Differences in the Brain Current Direction. Psychological Science 19(5) 280-283 Hammarén, N. & Johansson, T. (2009). Identitet. Stockholm: Liber. Isaksson, A, E Börjesson, K Ehrnberger (2014) Att synliggöra det osynliga. Design som aktör i jämställdhetsarbete Tidskrift för genusvetenskap 35(1):28-47 Laqueur, T. (1990). Making sex: body and gender from the Greeks to Freud. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, kap. 3. Nedlund, A-C & Nordh J. (2017) Constructing citizens: a matter of labeling, imaging and underlying rationales in the case of people with dementia, Critical Policy Studies. DOI: 10.1080/19460171.2017.1297730 Nord I., Bremer S. & Alm E. (2016) Redaktionsord: Cisnormativitet och feminism. Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap. 37(4) 2-13. Rose, N. S. (2007). The politics of life itself: biomedicine, power, and subjectivity in the twentyfirst century. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Rose, N. S. & Abi-Rached, J. M. (2014). Governing through the Brain: Neuropolitics, Neuroscience and Subjectivity. Cambridge Anthropology 32(1): 3–23 Siverskog, A. (2015) Ageing Bodies that Matter: Age, Gender and Embodiment in Older Transgender People's Life Stories, NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, 23:1, 4-19, DOI: 10.1080/08038740.2014.979869 Teghtsoonian, K. (2009) Depression and mental health in neoliberal times: A critical analysis of policy and discourse. Social Science & Medicine, 69(1): 28-35.
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