Learning objectives
The course aims to introduce and address the issue of social and cultural interpretation of the disease and treatment (the conceptual difference but also the overlap between disease, illness, sickness) and replace the experience of illness in the human and relational dimension to herself, the social system reference and meanings.
The program is carried out using references to stimulate critical reflection and discussion on the meanings attributed to concepts.
Course unit content
-The sociology of health and disease
-The identity of sociology: theory, empiricism and marketability
-Health and disease in sociology: main paradigms
-"In corpore sano" meanings and representations of being healthy today
-The doctor-patient relationship and nursing: new forms of care
-Health inequalities
-Lifestyles and health promotion between individual empowerment and social empowerment
-The role of the nurse in family assistance and in communication networks
- Nursing assistance in situations of vulnerability and marginality
Bibliography
Maturo A (Antonio), Sociology of disease. An introduction, Health and Society, Franco Angeli ed, Milan 2010 (1st reprint)
pp. 208, 1st reprint 2010, 1st edition 2007 (Publisher code 1341.1.13) ed, Milan 1st reprint 2013, 1st edition 2011 (Publisher code 1341.1.27) ISBN code: 9788846490261
Pierucci P., Self-training in self-care through the «health diary» method. Results of a pilot experience on a group of «emerging young adults», in Sistema Salute, 64, 4, Oct—Dec. 2017.
Lombo L., Stievano A., Introduction to the sociology of health, Franco Angeli, Milan, 2019
Assessment methods and criteria
-Written exam at the end of the course
-Report of the "Nursing Student Health Diary"
