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
1) Introduction to the sociology of health.
2) Health and disease.
3) Definition of disease, illness, sickness nowadays. Model of chronic disease as social reinterpretation of the disease
4) Social roles of the patient and the care provider
Bibliography
Mature A (Antonio), Sociology of the disease. An introduction, Health and Society, Franco Angeli ed, Milan 2010 (1st reprint)
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Ingrosso m., Care, health for all. a survey on the origins of sociology of health in Italy, Franco Angeli, Milan, 2015
Wholesale m. (1994), edited, health as a social construction, Franco Angeli, Milan.
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 Health System, 64, 4, Oct - Dec 2017.
Ivan Illich (1977), Medical nemesis. the expropriation of health, Mondadori, Milan.
Lombo L., Stievano A., Introduction to sociology of health, Franco Angeli, milan, 2019
