Course
Course 7.5 credits • SASH61
The course examines questions of health, lifestyle and medicine from cultural analytical and ethnographic perspectives. The course approaches different urgent societal issues relating to illness, diagnosis and wellbeing in contemporary and historical societies. These issues are discussed in relation to different cases: the meeting between doctor and patient, living with chronic disease, controversial biotechnological diagnoses and treatments, discourses on risk and responsibility, etc.
Teaching – spring semester of 2020
The Dean decides
- The Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology will temporarily transfer to distance teaching and examination by using the online platform Canvas or the tool Zoom. Exceptions are possible with consideration to e.g. group sizes. The change will occur starting March 18 2020 and will persist until the recommendations relating to the corona epidemic change.
The course is based on current research in ethnology, medical anthropology and cultural studies, including questions about the body, illness experiences, disability, ethics and the new health economy. Theoretical understanding of how aspects of identity, class, gender, ethnicity and age intervene in medical treatments and lifestyle patterns will be offered in lectures, seminars and group exercises. On completion of the course the students will have insight into the cultural dimensions of illness and health.
Study period:
spring semester 2020
Type of studies:
part time, 50 %,
day
Study period:
2020-03-06 – 2020-05-29
Language of instruction:
English
Eligibility:
General requirements for university studies in Sweden
Application code:
LU-E5301
Application code:
LU-70531
Introductory meeting: Friday, 6 March at 9.15 – 12.00 in LUX:B129
Teachers:
Rachel Irwin,
Lars-Eric Jönsson,
Max Liljefors,
Talieh Mirsalehi
First Admission Round
Internationell ansökan
Spring semester 2026
Last application date
15August 2025