This course is available on the BSc in Language, Culture and Society and BSc in Sociology. This course is not available as an outside option. This course is available with permission to General Course students. This course has a limited number of places (it is capped). Places are allocated on a first come first served basis.
This course is available on the BSc in Language, Culture and Society and BSc in Sociology. This course is not available as an outside option. This course is available with permission to General Course students. This course has a limited number of places (it is capped). Places are allocated on a first come first served basis.
This course is delivered through a combination of lectures, online materials and classes totalling a minimum of 20 hours in MT. Reading Weeks: Students on this course will have a reading week in MT Week 6, in line with departmental policy.
Students will be expected to produce 1 piece of coursework in the MT. The assessed examination is supported by ONE take home, mock examination that is formative.
L Stevenson. Life Beside Itself: Imagining Care in the Canadian Arctic (2014) B Prainsack. Personalized Medicine: Empowered Patients in the 21st Century? (2017) A Nelson Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination (2011) Mason, KA Infectious Change: Reinventing Chinese Public Health After and Epidemic (2016) A Frank, (1997) The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness and Ethics (1997) E Martin Bipolar Expeditions: Mania and Depression in American Culture (2007) J Latimer The Gene, The Clinic and the Family (2013) S Kaufman (2015) Ordinary Medicine Eugene Raikhel and William Garriott (2013) Addiction Trajectories G Davis. Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis (2015) N Tousignant. Edges of Exposure: Toxicology and the Problem of Capacity in Postcolonial Senegal (2018)
In-class assessment (20%) in the MT. Take-home assessment (80%) in January. Attendance at all classes and submission of all set coursework is required.