Learning objectives
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Prerequisites
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Course unit content
The course illustrates some basic notions of sociology of health - including those of body, disease, patient and social interaction at the intersection of person, medicine and society. Particular attention will be devoted to the notion of social interaction - in particular between roles - and to the variables that influence it (resources, age, gender, ethnicity)
Full programme
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Bibliography
Giarelli G., Venneri E., Sociologia della salute e della medicina: manuale per le professioni mediche, sanitarie e sociali, FrancoAngeli, Milano 2009 – To be studied: pp. 157-173, pp. 201-223, pp. 232-258, pp. 295-310, pp. 389-424, pp. 432-440
Teaching methods
Lessons in presence, if the pandemic situation permits it, during which the interaction students-teacher is explicitly stimulated, also by proposing contents discussion at the end of every lesson.
Assessment methods and criteria
If the pandemic situations permits it, the exam will be in presence, and will consists in three open questions (30 minutes)
Other information
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